On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:15:54AM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:

>   But the pkg for postgres74-client lists readline as a requirement, so
> the system builds and installs it, without letting the postgres build 
> process
> simply use the existing libedit library.
> 
>   This seems broken to me.  Does someone know of a good reason why
> libedit isn't sufficient?  If not, can we please fix it to not require 
> the libreadline
> package?

my guess is that for cross-platform consistency, the pkgsrc package
always includes readline support.

grant.