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Use INSTALL_MASK to keep /usr/bin/mysqld or whatever from getting installed. We |
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aren't generally in the habit of splitting packages into a bunch of different |
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ebuilds. There are exceptions, but.... |
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--Iggy |
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Christian Parpart wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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> And... any thoughts on this subject? |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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> Christian Parpart. |
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> |
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> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88490 |
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I top post... suck it |
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