Re: Trim the Fat (Was: Re: Open 7.3 items )

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Actually, the comparison is apt. There's a reason people suggest
> using your distribution's PHP or Zope or what-have-you packages,
> rather than installing from source: an inexperienced user with these
> packages could easily spend several days trying to figure out all the
> bits to install. Obviously, such people are new users, and a
> learning curve is expected. But given recent hand-wringing about the
> relative "mind-share" of Postgres &c., it seems perverse to make a
> new user have to find out (probably by asking on a mailing list) that
> basic stuff like client libraries are a whole separate package, which
> needs to be dealt with separately. It _would_ be nice, though, to be
> able to get just the client stuff for sure. And maybe the separation
> is worth it; I just want to be sure that people know the effect on
> users.

I have already provide Marc with a script needed to make an
interfaces-only tarball. I was about 1/10th the size of the full
tarball.

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