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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New PostgreSQL categories
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:21:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54de2ebf62c2e2510e59a7b914dc10907a9f8657.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7eb6a37e-bd6a-434b-b97a-21eacdbed981@gentoo.org>

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On Mon, 2024-10-28 at 14:49 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> I've just returned from the pgconf.eu conference, and this has motivated 
> me to try to improve the packaging situation for all things PostgreSQL 
> in Gentoo.
> 
> Right now everything just goes into dev-db/ category. That's not 
> inherently wrong, but it feels a bit overloaded to me. So I'd like to 
> add two new categories. I'm relatively indifferent about the naming, 
> good suggestions welcome, but locally I ended up naming them "pg-tools" 
> and "pg-extensions". As the name suggests, one category is tools around 
> PostgreSQL, and the other is extensions. (Or maybe it makes sense to put 
> all of it into a dev-postgres category?)

That's inconsistently long with how we name categories.  "-plugins"
would probably be more consistent too.

> - extensions, new packages:
> […]

Are you actually going to maintain all these new packages, or just dump
and effectively abandon them, as usual?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-28 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-28 13:49 [gentoo-dev] RFC: New PostgreSQL categories Patrick Lauer
2024-10-28 13:57 ` Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)
2024-10-28 13:59 ` Volkmar W. Pogatzki
2024-10-28 14:08 ` Agostino Sarubbo
2024-10-28 14:10 ` Azamat Hackimov
2024-10-28 15:21 ` Michał Górny [this message]
2024-10-28 17:07   ` Patrick Lauer
2024-10-28 19:15 ` Ulrich Müller
2024-10-29 22:22 ` Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier

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