On Saturday 23 December 2006 16:54, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql': > since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs,
Jakub is pretty bugzilla savvy, are you sure you bugs weren't closed for valid reasons? Sometime he does jump the gun though, so I don't doubt that some of your bugs may be valid -- you can always add more information to the bug and ask for it to be reopened. > I'll report the issue > to this list before completely giving up and never ever waste a > single second on reporting bugs ... Bugzilla is *the only* official channel to get bugs reported so that the developers will fix them. If you don't report your bugs, you'll just have to wait for someone else to report or the developers to "accidentally" fix the bug while working on something else. > Lots of packages have an wrong/unnecessary dependency to > postgresql. I don't doubt it. It's generally better to depend on too much rather than too little, and once things are "working" it's hard to get someone to "fix" it and run the risk of breaking it further. > Three cases: > > a) probably traditionally depended on the whole postgresql, maybe > since before libpq was an own package. ie. qt, dovecot, ... Have you confirmed these actually compile just against libpg? > b) many apps (ie. webapps like bugzilla) have postgresql as dep., > although they do not need it to be installed. (ie. bugzilla does > not have to do anything directly w/ postgresql, since it uses > perl-DBD for database access). Of course they maybe want to > have access to some postgres database, but this obviously does > not need an local server. Are you sure this isn't bringing in postgresql to satisfy some virtual? In all cases, you've confirmed that the dependency is direct and not USE flag controlled? Also, have you patched the ebuild with the changed/removed dependency and then sucessfully installed and run the package on a system *without postgresql* installed? What's the third case? -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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