Re: PostgreSQL
Yes, but it's not the Debian philosophy to force the persons who does'nt want
X support to do a --force-depends..
And it's not clean.
Usually, debian packages are small and with as less things as possible.
The extra stuff are in other packages...
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 07:26:45PM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote:
>
> > I wanted to install postgreSQL on a machine without X but postgresql needs
> > xlib6g & tk...
> > Is there a package without X & Tk .. support ?
> > Why do we need X ?
>
> I run PostgreSQL on several computers. The X stuff is there for the X
> client and the tk stuff is there for the tk support. I think. It's been
> a while (couple of months, anyway) since I installed pgsql from .deb
> files, so I don't really recall, but I think that the .deb files installs
> everything, including the kitchen sink. You don't have a limited "no-X"
> version.
>
> I've run (and continue to run, my main database server has no X on it)
> PostgreSQL on computers without X, but I installed it from the tarballs
> from postgresql.org.
>
> ICOCBW.
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