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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:22:19 +0530
From: "Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> * Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> schrieb:
>
> > Tiziano M=FCller wrote:
> > >What do the new ebuilds offer:
> > >a) A split into dev-db/postgresql-{base,server,docs}.
> >
> > WRONG we aren't debian.
>
> It's bad, just because Debian does it ?!
Yes, because their technical design is different from Gentoo's.
Debian/$binary_distro have to split up packages because they have no
other way of mapping configure flags to what the user wants to
install. Gentoo does, and they're called USE flags.
> Sounds quite religions to me. I don't like religions interfering with
> technical designs.
See above.
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~Nirbheek Chauhan
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