INSTALL: Improve another section regarding Berkeley DB dependency.
* INSTALL:
("Dependencies in Detail" -- "Berkeley DB") Similar to the change to
"Dependencies Overview" in r1869868, explain that BDB is
deprecated at the beginning of the section to make it more clear
that BDB is not needed if only using FSFS.
@@ -344,17 +344,21 @@ I. INTRODUCTION
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- 7. Berkeley DB 4.X (OPTIONAL)
+ 7. Berkeley DB 4.X (DEPRECATED and OPTIONAL)
Berkeley DB is needed to build a Subversion server that supports
the BDB repository filesystem, or to access a BDB repository on
- local disk. If you will only use the FSFS repository filesystem,
+ local disk.
+
+ The BDB back end has been deprecated in favor of FSFS, which
+ stores the repository in a flat filesystem. You do not need
+ Berkeley DB if you will only use the FSFS repository filesystem,
or if you are building a Subversion client that will only speak
- to remote (networked) repositories, you don't need it.
+ to remote (networked) repositories.
- The current recommended version is 4.4.20 or newer, which brings
- auto-recovery functionality to the Berkeley DB database
- environment.
+ The current recommended version of Berkeley DB is 4.4.20 or
+ newer, which brings auto-recovery functionality to the Berkeley
+ DB database environment.
If you must use an older version of Berkeley DB, we *strongly*
recommend using 4.3 or 4.2 over the 4.1 or 4.0 versions. Not
