On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:56, Robert Treat wrote:
> Perhaps one could just create a "PostgreSQL Powertools" section on
> techdocs, naming the packages and where to get them. This would
> eliminate the need to maintain a package that just duplicates other
> packages...
Let ye-old package managers make a shell package which simply points to
the others as dependencies.
I'd be willing to do this for FreeBSD (think Sean? would help as well)
if someone comes up with the list.
> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:00, Justin Clift wrote:
> > > Thomas Swan wrote:
> > >
> > > Justin Clift wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > > Ok. Wonder if it's worth someone creating a "PostgreSQL Powertools"
> > > > type of package, that includes in one download all of these nifty
> > > > tools (pg_autotune, oid2name, etc) that would be beneficial to have
> > > > compiled and already available. Kind of like "contrib" is (oid2name is
> > > > already there I know), but so people don't have to go hunting all over GBorg
> > > > to find the bits that they'd want.
> > > >
> > > That would be wonderful if it included some of the more stable tools /
> > > add-ons that have been removed from the main distribution or have
> > > existed independent of the main PostgreSQL development.
> >
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > Want to get it together?
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Regards and best wishes,
> >
> > Justin Clift
> >
> >
> > --
> > "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
> > who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
> > first group; there was less competition there."
> > - Indira Gandhi
> >
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