Re: Link requirements creep

On Sat, 17 May 2008, Tom Lane wrote:

> I was displeased to discover just now that in a standard RPM build of
> PG 8.3, psql and the other basic client programs pull in libxml2 and
> libxslt; this creates a package dependency that should not be there
> by any stretch of the imagination.

When we noticed this recently, my digging suggested you'll be hard pressed 
to have a RedHat system now without those two installed.  The libxslt RPM 
provides necessary components for KDE, GNOME, and Sun's Java RPM. 
libxml2 is far more intertwined even than that.  These dependencies are 
unpleasant technically, but I don't think the introduce any real 
functional creep.  It would be difficult to even strip a system down to 
the point where these packages weren't available.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD