Hi all, well, regarding the request on bug 88490 [1] (and my own needs) I'm in a deep problem ;)
There *are* packages out there, that depend on (networking) client libraries (and their headers of course); for the general mysql ebuild, I'd propose the following splitup: * dev-db/mysql-server (or myssqld) * net-libs/libmysqlclient * dev-db/mysql (a meta package that simply depends on both, for backward compat) The reason is, that some packages need to talk to (SQL )servers, but some host installation do not need - or even want to (think about security policies) - a local (SQL) server; Using the "minimal" useflag for this - IMHO - is a misuse of the idea of "minimal" semantically - as I do understand minimal in a way like "don't overbloat me with patches and other feature additions"-alike. This idea of course is applicable for lots of more packages, but mysql is one use case where I myself ran into; Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this? And... any thoughts on this subject? Regards, Christian Parpart. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88490 -- 15:56:43 up 148 days, 5:04, 2 users, load average: 1.32, 1.21, 1.21
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