| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Finer Extension dependencies |
| Date: | 2012-03-29 18:48:53 |
| Message-ID: | 1333046933.4554.27.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On tor, 2012-03-29 at 14:39 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > but it breaks down when you, say, want to
> > wrap your egg into a Debian package.
>
> *blink* Huh?
Well, you can't represent that mechanism in a Debian (or RPM) package
dependency. So the alternatives are make it a Recommends and add a
free-form explanation somewhere, or make it a hard Depends, thus
overriding the fine-grained dependency setup.
More to the point, I think any mechanism we dream up here that is
smarter than what dpkg or rpm can represent is going to be useful only
in niche situation.
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