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Hi all, |
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well, regarding the request on bug 88490 [1] (and my own needs) I'm in a deep |
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problem ;) |
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There *are* packages out there, that depend on (networking) client libraries |
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(and their headers of course); |
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for the general mysql ebuild, I'd propose the following splitup: |
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* dev-db/mysql-server (or myssqld) |
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* net-libs/libmysqlclient |
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* dev-db/mysql (a meta package that simply depends on both, for backward |
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compat) |
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The reason is, that some packages need to talk to (SQL )servers, but some host |
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installation do not need - or even want to (think about security policies) - |
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a local (SQL) server; |
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Using the "minimal" useflag for this - IMHO - is a misuse of the idea of |
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"minimal" semantically - as I do understand minimal in a way like "don't |
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overbloat me with patches and other feature additions"-alike. |
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This idea of course is applicable for lots of more packages, but mysql is one |
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use case where I myself ran into; |
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Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this? |
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And... any thoughts on this subject? |
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Regards, |
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Christian Parpart. |
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[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88490 |
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