Which db should I build this package against?

[John Reiser]

>>> I'm working on packaging conquest[1] for fedora which can be built
>>> against dbase,mysql, postgresql *and* mysql. Which one should I build it
>>> against? Should I build it against all of them and make different
>>> subpackages??

>> Did you talk to upstream and figure out if all these options are equally
>> well supported?  That would determine if you want to build sub packages
>> for all or not

> See also bacula.  It rebuilds 3 times for sqlite, mysql and postgresql
> support.

Perhaps upstream could deliver N shared libraries, then at run time use
dlopen() to load the one which corresponds to the database package
that is being used.

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