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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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> 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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> 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 were a client and server useflag discussion before. |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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