Den Thursday 12 June 2008 20:04:17 skrev Adam Williamson:
> 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?

I think that reason was lost in space many years ago.

Now is now, then is then.

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Regards // Oden Eriksson