On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:56:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:37:41PM -0500, Dan White wrote: > > >> libpq-dev depends on libkrb5-dev, which conflicts with heimdal-dev. > > > Ahh. I am running Etch on my main workstation, and so it was not > > immediately apparent to me. I wonder if the postgres maintainers would > > consider making theirs MIT | Heimdal? > > You can't really do that. If the PostgreSQL libraries expose any of the > underlying Kerberos libraries, you can't just replace MIT Kerberos with > Heimdal after the fact. Things won't compile. > I guess I wasn't clear. I meant to see if it was possible for them to do something similar to what we are doing (with a second minimal source package for the Heimdal implementation).
> (Although a more basic question is why the libpq-dev package depends on > libkrb5-dev, and if it's just libtool transitive dependencies or static > library dependencies or something more useful.) > It is probably best to find this out first. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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