Re: [HACKERS] rpms

> >what is more clear/descriptive to you for a package that ONLY
> >contains PostgreSql libraries:
> >a) postgresql-libs.xxx.rpm (or maybe postgresql-clientlibs.xxx.rpm ?)
> >b) postgresql.xxx.rpm
> suposse a newbie looking for a RDBM is told to install PostgreSql,
> what you think will be the first package he will try ?

Well, the newbie would be best off if he installed every package ;)

Anyway, afaik most RPM distros of a product have one .rpm file which
has the name of the package, and then may have other .rpm files which
have qualifiers, like "-server". So in choosing which .rpm file will
be the base package, it seemed most appropriate that it be the
client-side stuff, as opposed to docs, or server (which btw can't
really be run on its own without the client stuff installed
*somewhere*), or something else.

I appreciate your points, but it isn't clear to me how to eliminate
*all* possibilities for confusion via RPM package names, so chose to
use names which give some appropriate functionality for each package.

Regards.

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California