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Re: [PATCH] gnu: pspp: Update to 0.10.0
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: pspp: Update to 0.10.0 |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:46:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 07:33:10PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > Postgres ships with a client interface library called libpq - using it
> is optional
> > in pspp. If you have it, it allows pspp to directly connect to
> postgres databases.
>
> I guess the PostgreSQL dependency might be debatable since it would
> probably significantly increase the closure size. Could you check
> ???guix
> size??? and decide whether adding this dependency is a good thing, based
> on its size/benefit ratio? :-)
>
> For this reasons, most distos which ship postgres put the libpq &c in a
> seperate package.
> Guix so far as I can see is the only one which does not. Should we split
> postgres into
> two (or more) outputs ?
Why not, again depending on the cost/benefit ratio in terms of closure
size and usability.
Ludo’.