BDB and GDBM

[Bruce Dubbs]

Matthew Burgess wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:35:00 -0500, Randy McMurchy <randy at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Ah, yes, that sounds familiar now (maybe I should've trawled the archives rather
> than try to rely on my memory!).
> 
> I'd agree that your proposal is the right thing to do.  Bruce, do you mind if we
> squeeze this in for 6.5?

Go ahead.

   -- Bruce