Why does dovecot require mysql?

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Warren Togami wrote:
> You are overstating the security risk of a single library package that 
> is unused.

It isn't a single package, and it isn't limited just to the libraries 
(it includes some daemons too).

Lately this is becoming a trend.  howl and howl-libs are must-have for 
GNOME (and bunch of other packages), and soon will become must-have for 
KDE.  NetworkManager now requires bind and caching-nameserver.  And 
those are just the few discussed on this mailing list in last couple of 
days.

So yeah, we do have a security issue here.  User's systems are getting 
bloated with libraries *and* services that it starts to look as 
out-of-box Windows installation.  And we all know how secure that is.

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