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.
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Bjorn Munch
PostgreSQL Release Engineering
Database Group, Sun Microsystems