BDB and GDBM

[Matthew Burgess]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:57:21 -0500, Randy McMurchy <randy at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> So I don't have to try and scour through the archives, can someone help
> me figure out why GDBM was added to chapter 6 of the book, yet BDB was
> left in as well. Do we have packages in Chapter 6 that depend on both
> being installed?

Hi Randy.  GDBM was added to chapter 6 on the recommendation of the
upstream Man-DB author, as it's their better-supported DB implementation.

BDB was added ages ago when we moved to iproute2, whose arpd implementation links
against BDB.  Personally, I never use arpd, but I guess it's useful for some
network-admin types.  We could drop BDB and therefore lose arpd (potentially
pointing folks at BLFS for BDB instructions), but I really don't care either way to
be honest.

Regards,

Matt.