BDB and GDBM

[Randy McMurchy]

Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 07/17/09 06:24 CST:

> 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.

No, BDB was added when we moved to man-db. Before that, we didn't build
the arpd program, which is what I suggest we do now. If we don't drop
BDB (which we should), then at least let's fix the text that essentially
says you are on your own if you use GDBM with man-db.

-- 
Randy

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