John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 07:33:10PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > > > Postgres ships with a client interface library called libpq - using it > is optional > > in pspp. If you have it, it allows pspp to directly connect to > postgres databases. > > I guess the PostgreSQL dependency might be debatable since it would > probably significantly increase the closure size. Could you check > ???guix > size??? and decide whether adding this dependency is a good thing, based > on its size/benefit ratio? :-) > > For this reasons, most distos which ship postgres put the libpq &c in a > seperate package. > Guix so far as I can see is the only one which does not. Should we split > postgres into > two (or more) outputs ?
Why not, again depending on the cost/benefit ratio in terms of closure size and usability. Ludo’.
