Re: Providing libpq explicitly

On 10/11/16 3:33 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 11 October 2016 at 15:13, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 21:59 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> >> What is an example of such a package?
>> >
>> > One of EDB packages. It uses functions exported by the libpq of 9.1+.
> I see, and you don't want to depend on postgresql9x-libs because you
> want to allow install against any postgresql9x-libs that installs a
> libpq.

Surely the RPM world has a standard or convention for this so we don't
have to make up something here?  This is not the first shared library in
the world, after all

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