Bugzilla Bug 143444

psycopg is dependant on postgresql and libpq - should be dependant on libpq
only. libpq = libraries to access database, postgresql = database engine.

missing dependency on egenix-mx-base

(In reply to comment #0)
> psycopg is dependant on postgresql and libpq - should be dependant on libpq
> only. 

No, it shouldn't (you'll be missing pg_config for one). On a side note,
psycopg-2* needs 7.4.x, lower 7.x versions are not supported there.

> missing dependency on egenix-mx-base

Which version are you talking about? Not a mandatory dep for psycopg-2 any
more.

>> missing dependency on egenix-mx-base
>
>Which version are you talking about? Not a mandatory dep for psycopg-2 any more.

Sorry. Psycopg version 1.1.21. Psycopg-2 is masked with ~x86.

> No, it shouldn't (you'll be missing pg_config for one). On a side note,
> psycopg-2* needs 7.4.x, lower 7.x versions are not supported there.

I have compiled and working psycopg 1.1.21 without postgresql or pg_config with
libpq only. I should not be needed to have installed whole database engine to
access database on remote host. I did not try psycopg-2.

I emerged psycopg with
emerge --nodeps psycopg
and it did not complain about missing postgresql package.

(In reply to comment #2)
> >> missing dependency on egenix-mx-base
> >
> >Which version are you talking about? Not a mandatory dep for psycopg-2 any more.
> 
> Sorry. Psycopg version 1.1.21.

It depends on egenix-mx-base already. You need to run python-updater after
upgrading python.

Sending this to maintainer, the postgresql dep in 2.x should be fixed
regardless, it doesn't work w/ anything less than 7.4.

Thanks, fixed both the libpq dep and the version 7.4. thanks for the report.