Comment 3 for bug 184364

* "J. Javier Maestro"

| Perhaps a possible course of action is to offer several dovecot-auth
| packages, with a default dovecot-auth-filesystem or whatever that uses
| the basic password auth, and then other dovecot-
| auth-{pgsql,mysql,ldap,...}. Then, there would be dovecot-auth-full for
| those who need several of those installed at the same time.

In order to save about 3MB of disk space? I don't see any point in
the maintenance overhead.

| I see it kind-of-like the apache2-mpm-worker and apache2-mpm-prefork,
| when one is installed, it uninstalls the other, etc. I don't know if
| this kind of packages are common, but I know that I would love to have
| them without having to manually recompile the src.

-mpm-worker and -mpm-prefork are not possible to combine into one
package in any sane way and have very different performance and
feature characteristics, so the comparison doesn't hold.

In general, the policy is for packages to be compiled with all
features enabled rather than being able to turn features on and off.
The one big exception to this is X support where quite a few packages
exists both with and without X support.

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