On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 08:00, Mark Gordon wrote:
> Why does it install BerkleyDB 4 rather that depending on it?
> 
> I already have version 4 installed using the ebuild for it since I am
> doing some development work against it (why work do a new project
> against an earlier version?) so having it as part of subversion as well
> seems wrong.

The problem is that db4 is still masked in portage because some packages
won't build against it.  There's a goal of getting all packages in
Portage db4-ready, and we're nearly at the point where people building a
brand-new system can build a db4-only system w/o any real problems. 
Then we have to come up with a good way to handle the people who will be
upgrading w/o breaking their systems.  We probably need somebody
dedicated to working on just db4-related issues right now, but we don't
have the resources at the moment.

Best,
g2boojum
-- 
Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>