Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

On 09:55 Wed 16 Apr     , Tiziano Müller wrote:
> What do the new ebuilds offer:
> a) A split into dev-db/postgresql-{base,server,docs}. Now, I know that
> splitting up packages isn't the Gentoo way. I know we could have done it
> using USE flags but this approach gives more flexibility due to the current
> way how binary packages are being generated and distributed.

I'd like to hear some more info on this point.

> In general the only thing you have to then do is to uninstall dev-db/libpq
> and dev-db/postgresql and install the same version of postgresql-base and
> postgresql-server. No revdep-rebuild is needed.
> For early adopters: It's best to wait until we changed the dependencies,
> afterwards you can unmask the dev-db/postgresql-{docs,base,server}
> packages...

People want `emerge postgresql` to do something. Otherwise it's not 
always obvious which random hyphenated packages you're supposed to 
install, and it's just like you're digging around some huge subpackage 
list in Ubuntu or Fedora.

Thanks,
Donnie
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