Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] [treequake] virtual/mysql addition

[Francesco Riosa]

Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 23-11-2006 00:12:45 +0000, Francesco Riosa wrote with possible deletions:
>> Also if you are the maintainer of one of the mentioned [5] packages
>> please avoid version bumps until tomorrow when I'll apply the changes to
>> the tree (see [2] for an explanation)
>
> [snip]
>
>> [5]
>> profiles/default-darwin/macos/10.4/package.provided
>> profiles/default-darwin/macos/progressive/package.provided
>> profiles/default-darwin/macos/prefix/package.provided
>
> Index: experimental/profiles/default-darwin/macos/10.4/package.provided
> =======================================================================
> - dev-db/mysql-4.1.10a
> + virtual/mysql-4.1
>
> Maybe I don't understand very well, but isn't it a more logical solution
> to keep this "as is"?  I'm not in favour of having virtuals in
> package.provided files (apart from whether it works or not).

I do think you're right here, <=dev-db/mysql-5.0.26 will stay in the
tree as is and in the case Mac OSx switch to a version > 5.0.26 the
profile may be changed accordingly.
In short no change is needed to the package.provided files

>
> Will the MySQL 3.x and 4.x source lines completely vanish in your
> change?  If not, what will be the package that provides a 4.1.x version
> of MySQL after your change?  Alternatively, we remove mysql from the
> package.provided files in the default-darwin tree.  I don't think the
> package is in use by any other package.

see previous point
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