On Mon, 2024-10-28 at 14:49 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> I've just returned from the pgconf.eu conference, and this has motivated 
> me to try to improve the packaging situation for all things PostgreSQL 
> in Gentoo.
> 
> Right now everything just goes into dev-db/ category. That's not 
> inherently wrong, but it feels a bit overloaded to me. So I'd like to 
> add two new categories. I'm relatively indifferent about the naming, 
> good suggestions welcome, but locally I ended up naming them "pg-tools" 
> and "pg-extensions". As the name suggests, one category is tools around 
> PostgreSQL, and the other is extensions. (Or maybe it makes sense to put 
> all of it into a dev-postgres category?)

That's inconsistently long with how we name categories.  "-plugins"
would probably be more consistent too.

> - extensions, new packages:
> […]

Are you actually going to maintain all these new packages, or just dump
and effectively abandon them, as usual?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny