Re: Link requirements creep - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Link requirements creep
Date
Msg-id 1299.1211086790@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Link requirements creep  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
Responses Re: Link requirements creep  (Bjorn Munch <Bjorn.Munch@sun.com>)
Re: Link requirements creep  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.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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