Why must SQLObject expose database connections to users's?

Why does my TurboGears/SQLObject app need an explicit connection to database to
be exposed?

I'm thinking of the following line which *MUST* appear....

__connection__ = turbogears.database.PackageHub("myapp")

Isn't a goal for ORMs to hide all this database connection stuff?

Chris

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