Re: moving from contrib to bin

On 2014-12-12 10:20:58 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > On 12/12/14 8:13 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> Wouldn't a make install-server/client targets or something similar
> >> actually achieve the same thing? Seems simpler to maintain to me.
> 
> > Adding non-standard makefile targets comes with its own set of
> > maintenance issues.
> 
> It would be of zero value to packagers anyway; certainly so for those
> following the Red Hat tradition, in which you tell the package Makefile
> to install everything and then what goes into which subpackage is
> sorted out in a separate, subsequent step.  Possibly Debian or other
> packaging infrastructures do it differently, but I doubt that.

Debian has that step as well - you don't really have to use it, but the
postgres debian packages do so. They already don't adhere to the current
distinction.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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