From: | "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Re: [SQL] Re: [GENERAL] lztext and compression ratios... |
Date: | 2000-07-08 06:43:19 |
Message-ID: | 200007080643.e686hKv14330@linda.lfix.co.uk |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> And how should binary distributions like RPM's handle it?
>
>They got all their fancy dependency mechanisms for that (which never work
>well, but anyway).
Debian's work very well, because the Debian repository is centralised
under uniform quality control.
As a package maintainer, I can allow a package to depend on zlib -- in
which case the dependency will be satisfied by any version -- or I can
specify a versioned dependency. I might have to provide the correct
library myself, if the zlib maintainer didn't want to maintain an old
version. At the moment Debian provides zlib1g; if the major version
changes, I would expect to see this package remain and a new zlib2
package be created.
I would prefer a solution that did not _require_ me to maintain zlib
as well, if the dependency can be satisfied from another package.
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