Re: ssh and libsqlite.so

[Vitaly Shevtsov <shev.vt1984%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello!

No, I'm not saying to remove sqlite from the base image completely. Of
course not, since some binaris depend on it.
My point is that Full Text Search for apropos and whatis was
implemented for NetBSD by using sqlite in 2012 as GSOC. So I think now
it's no longer needed for apropos/whatis since the modern mandoc
supports semantic search using POSIX API only.

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 3:28 PM Martin Neitzel
<neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> > I found that apropos and whatis from the modern mandoc no longer
> > depend on libsqlite.so.
> > Maybe it's time to switch to it and make the base image less dependent
> > on third-party libraries?
>
> Personally, since sqlite *did* incorporated into base, I started to
> rely a bit on it.  So does our (base) postfix (check postconf -m).
> Removing sqlite again would appear a bit willy/nilly to me.  That's
> how the fads of the year are treated in Ubuntu but (hopefully) not
> in NetBSD.
>
> Moreover, Richard Hipp as its author is doing an awsome job keeping
> sqlite itself trouble-free and DBs upgradable, too.  It is probably
> the SQL db with the least overhead.  Is keeping it in base really a
> big burden?
>
> Note that I am not arguing against the latest and greatest
> mandb (without sqlite as a requirement).
>
>                                                 Martin Neitzel