>>>>> On Mon, 28 Oct 2024, Patrick Lauer wrote: > I've just returned from the pgconf.eu conference, and this has > motivated me to try to improve the packaging situation for all things > PostgreSQL in Gentoo.
> Right now everything just goes into dev-db/ category. That's not > inherently wrong, but it feels a bit overloaded to me. So I'd like to > add two new categories. I'm relatively indifferent about the naming, > good suggestions welcome, but locally I ended up naming them > "pg-tools" and "pg-extensions". As the name suggests, one category is > tools around PostgreSQL, and the other is extensions. (Or maybe it > makes sense to put all of it into a dev-postgres category?) As briefly discussed in #-dev, I think that "dev-postgres" would fit better with the naming of existing categories. > A good amount of things are in-tree already, a lot of other things > I've accumulated in a local repository. Most of it is very boring > (i.e. most extensions 'just' use a plain Makefile) and has low rate of > change. > The packages involved are: > [...] That's not too many, so maybe a single category would suffice? Ulrich
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