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 1JmPxv-0006Nw-Po for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:59:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8F7FE0441; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out4.libero.it (smtp-out4.libero.it [212.52.84.46]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CEAE0441 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailrelay07.libero.it (192.168.32.94) by smtp-out4.libero.it (7.3.120) id 4628C8830A845042 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:59:32 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuAAAOeuBkiXORxC/2dsb2JhbAAIrTI Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.0.6]) ([151.57.28.66]) by OutRelay-b07.libero.it with ESMTP; 17 Apr 2008 10:59:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4807115C.6090904@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:59:08 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080228) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4cf9418d-5cf3-4040-a319-f88558613770 X-Archives-Hash: 5bb31b05e3903d3942a2eb9f4f55ad99 Tiziano M=C3=BCller wrote: > What do the new ebuilds offer: > a) A split into dev-db/postgresql-{base,server,docs}. WRONG we aren't debian. we have a nice use for documentation... > 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. It gives an annoyance please reconsider. > b) New virtuals: virtual/postgresql-{base,server} to be able to install > pgcluster as your postgresql-base in a next step. see before. > c) Slotting: It is now possible to have more than one major version of > PostgreSQL installed and running on the same machine. Great =3D) > d) A lot of other improvements, in detail, the following bugs will be f= ixed: Wonderful =3D) lu --=20 Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list