From: "Ulrich Müller" <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New PostgreSQL categories
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:15:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4j4w9gza@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7eb6a37e-bd6a-434b-b97a-21eacdbed981@gentoo.org> (Patrick Lauer's message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:49:01 +0100")
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>>>>> 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
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-28 13:49 [gentoo-dev] RFC: New PostgreSQL categories Patrick Lauer
2024-10-28 13:57 ` Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)
2024-10-28 13:59 ` Volkmar W. Pogatzki
2024-10-28 14:08 ` Agostino Sarubbo
2024-10-28 14:10 ` Azamat Hackimov
2024-10-28 15:21 ` Michał Górny
2024-10-28 17:07 ` Patrick Lauer
2024-10-28 19:15 ` Ulrich Müller [this message]
2024-10-29 22:22 ` Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
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