Re: Link requirements creep - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bjorn Munch
Subject Re: Link requirements creep
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Msg-id 20080519102104.GA20229@khepri12.norway.sun.com
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In response to Re: Link requirements creep  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 18/05 00.59, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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 ...

I agree it's wrong, but I don't this is likely to be any problem in
practice on Solaris either.

-- 
Bjorn Munch
PostgreSQL Release Engineering
Database Group, Sun Microsystems


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