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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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