Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > With "postgresql" (albeit not limited to postgresql) the added difficulty > is that the main package contains only parts of the suite. The server files > are in another package. Right, and the same is true of mysql. These decisions were made before I took over the packages, but I think the reasoning is that the client programs are useful without the server (because you might be installing them just to talk to a remote database server), but the server isn't very useful without the clients (because they are essential management tools for a server). So the client programs form the "base" package and the -server subpackage depends on that, not the other way around. This means that there really isn't *any* single package on which it's useful to hang a self-contained description like > Advanced Object-Relational database management system using SQL The base package really has to say that it's just clients for the DBMS, or it's misleading. I suppose I could attach such a description to the -server subpackage, but it looks a tad weird in context. If I had a way to declare a "meta-package" in the specfile then I'd attach the core description to it. regards, tom lane -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
