Re: [HACKERS] rpms

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> 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.

Usually, the "base" package somehow contains what the package centers
around and the -xxx packages are supplements (like -headers, -devel,
-foointerface). Arguably, PostgreSQL centers around the database server.

Why not just name the packages postgresql-server and postgresql-client and
have no 'postgresql' as such. That should alleviate any confusion
whatsoever.


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