Hi Casey,
Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
> Alex Satrapa (Sunday 28 December 2003 22:16)
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>>Just convince your distribution's
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> My what? I don't use no stinkin' distribution :).
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>>postgresql package maintainer
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> That would be postgresql.org, I know not of binary packages.
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>>"suggests/recommends" portion of the package management metadata.
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> Tar does not provide such metadata, and a suggestion is hardly the same as an
> inclusion.
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> I'm just saying that it would be nice to include both CLI and GUI interfaces,
> not to mention things like ODBC, as an alternative to the "minimalist"
> download.
No. NO! Definitively not. I really dont want GUI interfaces on a
database server. We are not on Windows here where all servers
better reside on the desktop...
But you could provide a wget script for the configure file
to fetch all sources one would need to install to his
postgres server if desireable.
Regards
Tino