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Luca Barbato wrote: |
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>Christian Parpart wrote: |
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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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>minimal is about keeping the package at the minimum, that means strip |
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>every feature that won't prevent it to run. |
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Maybe it's foggy for mysql usage, better suggestions (clientonly, libonly) ? |
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>>Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this? |
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>Usually the policy is "If the upstream has planned that we'll follow, |
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>otherwise no" |
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[IMHO] |
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Upstream distribuite binaryes of only libraryes, in this direction it's |
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supported. |
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Build them from the source only libs is not deeply supported, see below. |
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[/IMHO] |
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>>And... any thoughts on this subject? |
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>I'd prefer to have those features enabled by useflag, sometimes (eg. |
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>qemu) I can split functionality in separated ebuild and use a metaebuild |
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>to let users merge both w/out major overhead. |
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>In your case a useflag IMHO would be enough since the situation require |
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>a particular setup and in the case the constraint changes won't be a |
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>problem rebuild a full mysql. |
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>The question is, does the mysql configure script have a "clientonly" |
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>and/or a "libraryonly" option? |
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there is an option for configure "--without-server" , but actually the |
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server is still build. |
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Take a look at >= dev-db/mysql-4.0.24-r2 for how "minimal" use flag is |
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used, |
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basically it force some flag off and remove some files from the install. |
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>There were a client and server useflag discussion before. |
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