[gentoo-user] PostgreSQL: dev-db/postgresql, dev-db/postgresql-server, or virtual/postgresql-server?

2008-12-21 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
I want to install PostgreSQL but I'm wondering which package to use. The obvious choice (dev-db/postgresql) installs 8.2.7 but dev-db/postgresql-server installs 8.3.5. (I see they even use the same tarball.) Is postgresql-server is the proper way going forward? What about

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL: dev-db/postgresql, dev-db/postgresql-server, or virtual/postgresql-server?

2008-12-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 December 2008 23:45:33 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I want to install PostgreSQL but I'm wondering which package to use. The obvious choice (dev-db/postgresql) installs 8.2.7 but dev-db/postgresql-server installs 8.3.5. (I see they even use the same tarball.) Is postgresql-server is the

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL: dev-db/postgresql, dev-db/postgresql-server, or virtual/postgresql-server?

2008-12-21 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: postgresql-server is not something new, it's a new way of packaging an existing product. It's like the monolithic/split KDE ebuilds, the new split postgresql packages make the dev's life easier, and make it possible for you to make more modular

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL: dev-db/postgresql, dev-db/postgresql-server, or virtual/postgresql-server?

2008-12-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 22 December 2008 00:07:01 Graham Murray wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: postgresql-server is not something new, it's a new way of packaging an existing product. It's like the monolithic/split KDE ebuilds, the new split postgresql packages make the dev's life

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL: dev-db/postgresql, dev-db/postgresql-server, or virtual/postgresql-server?

2008-12-21 Thread felix
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:01:59AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: What's the rationale behind that? I can see why someone might want two or more versions of php, python, perl or mysql. But postgresql? I can't imagine why it would be useful to the majority to have SLOTs for postgresql.

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL: dev-db/postgresql, dev-db/postgresql-server, or virtual/postgresql-server?

2008-12-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 22 December 2008 03:01:07 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:01:59AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: What's the rationale behind that? I can see why someone might want two or more versions of php, python, perl or mysql. But postgresql? I can't imagine why it would