On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 20:00 +0200, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> Oden just pointed me on irc that some files of postgresql are not in the
> default location:
>
>      --datadir=%{_datadir}/pgsql \
>      --includedir=%{_includedir}/pgsql \
>      --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir}/pgsql \
>
> This is annoying for C headers files, forcing us to patches or add extra
> options to all software/specs files or software related to postgresql.
>
> I don't see any reasons to not back to a standard location. So I do plan to
> remove theses line from postgresql 8.3 spec file to kill this issue.
> This mean many rpm will need to be fixed.
>
> Does anyone disagree ?

Well, it might be nice to know why we have it this way currently:
presumably it was originally done for some kind of legitimate reason?
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adamw