> What if clicking on the "let's do it the new way" button would spawn
the process that installs postgres?

I'd live with that if I had to, but it's less than ideal. Software
should work without a "make me work" button. Glom really isn't working
if it can't self-host. That would be a client-only version of Glom, but
I have no plans to make such a version for regular desktops, because
there's no need.

There's also the problem that the admin would need to be present later
after the admin thinks he has fully installed Glom, because full
installation only happens when the user tries to actually use the
application.

It's more or less justifiable as an option in gnome-system-tools where
the feature is really not needed by default (the network time client) or
where it's a choice of equivalent implementations (SMB or NFS
networking). In that case it's not a "make me work" button.

> I wouldn't want them to install postgres, if they don't need it.

But why not? I think you are taking the opportunity to pick apart the
implementation of an application just because you can, because the
application reuses existing software instead of reinventing the wheel.

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Glom: missing dependency - PostgreSQL
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1225

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