From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jm2qs-0003QQ-EB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:18:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46EE6E04F6; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20121E04F6 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (c-71-193-142-160.hsd1.or.comcast.net [71.193.142.160]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A571366B63 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:18:41 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status Message-ID: <20080416081841.GB23808@comet> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b92b51cb-5da6-4459-81e0-07c7abd7c1e9 X-Archives-Hash: 6f1d6b212546594826728591d8a2c6de On 09:55 Wed 16 Apr , Tiziano M=FCller 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 i= t > using USE flags but this approach gives more flexibility due to the cur= rent > 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/li= bpq > and dev-db/postgresql and install the same version of postgresql-base a= nd > 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=20 always obvious which random hyphenated packages you're supposed to=20 install, and it's just like you're digging around some huge subpackage=20 list in Ubuntu or Fedora. Thanks, Donnie --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list