Postfix and faststart

[Doug Barton]

Johny Mattsson wrote:

> Maybe it would be useful to have a dummy DATABASE milestone, since I 
> imagine there are many applications that do depends on various databases 
> (mail & webservers being the first to come to mind). Having a DATABASE 
> milestone would allow for good decoupling between the individual apps 
> and the various databases. Databases would "BEFORE: DATABASE", and apps 
> depending on them could simply "REQUIRE: DATABASE" and not have to worry 
> about whether it was compiled with a postgresql, mysql or someothersql 
> database.
> 
> Just a thought, and possibly not the most well-considered one at that, 
> but I figured it might be worthwhile enough to share :)

This idea has been discussed in the past, and it has a lot of merit. I tend 
to have a fundamental opposition to adding new pseudo-targets unless they 
are ABSOLUTELY necessary, since they add complexity to the system and reduce 
flexibility with ordering. However, this may actually be a case where it's 
both useful and worth the cost.

I'm not going to take the initiative on this however, since I don't feel 
that I understand all the issues well enough. If you (or anyone else) want 
to pursue this, freebsd-rc@ is probably the place to start, then get 
involvement from -ports once the pros and cons have been well discussed.

hth,

Doug

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