On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Alex King wrote:
> Speaking as a debian user, and an admin of quite a few debian systems,
> I would not like to see mysql drivers compiled in to the standard
> package. However I'm not so sure dynamically loaded libraries are the
> way to go either. Would the extra code, complexity, and possible new
> security problems be worth it? I suspect not.
That is one of my worries, but as I don't know anything about dynamic
loading, I can't substantiate my worry with anything other than "gut
feeling".
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