>>>>> On Mon, 28 Oct 2024, Patrick Lauer wrote:

> I've just returned from the pgconf.eu conference, and this has
> motivated me to try to improve the packaging situation for all things
> PostgreSQL in Gentoo.

> Right now everything just goes into dev-db/ category. That's not
> inherently wrong, but it feels a bit overloaded to me. So I'd like to
> add two new categories. I'm relatively indifferent about the naming,
> good suggestions welcome, but locally I ended up naming them
> "pg-tools" and "pg-extensions". As the name suggests, one category is
> tools around PostgreSQL, and the other is extensions. (Or maybe it
> makes sense to put all of it into a dev-postgres category?)

As briefly discussed in #-dev, I think that "dev-postgres" would fit
better with the naming of existing categories.

> A good amount of things are in-tree already, a lot of other things
> I've accumulated in a local repository. Most of it is very boring
> (i.e. most extensions 'just' use a plain Makefile) and has low rate of
> change.

> The packages involved are:
> [...]

That's not too many, so maybe a single category would suffice?

Ulrich