Jacob Champion:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM Wolfgang Walther <walt...@technowledgy.de> wrote:
And that should also not be a problem for distributions - they could offer a
libpq and a libpq_oauth package, where only one of them can be installed at the
same time, I guess? *
My outsider understanding is that maintaining this sort of thing
becomes a major headache, because of combinatorics. You don't really
want to ship a libpq and libpq-with-gss and libpq-with-oauth and
libpq-with-oauth-and-gss and ...
That would only be the case, if you were to consider those other
dependencies as "dangerous" as cURL. But we already depend on them. So
if it's really the case that cURL is that much worse, that we consider
loading it as a module... then the combinatorics should not be a problem
either.
However, if the other deps are considered problematic as well, then the
ship has already sailed, and there is not point for a special case here
anymore.
Best,
Wolfgang
