Re: Link requirements creep

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Link requirements creep
Date: 2008-05-18 04:59:50
Message-ID: 1299.1211086790@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I was displeased to discover just now that in a standard RPM build of
>> PG 8.3, psql and the other basic client programs pull in libxml2 and
>> libxslt; this creates a package dependency that should not be there
>> by any stretch of the imagination.

> When we noticed this recently, my digging suggested you'll be hard pressed
> to have a RedHat system now without those two installed.

Indeed, I've not heard any squawks from the field yet. It's still
wrong though ...

regards, tom lane

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