Christian Parpart wrote: > 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.
minimal is about keeping the package at the minimum, that means strip every feature that won't prevent it to run. > Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this? Usually the policy is "If the upstream has planned that we'll follow, otherwise no" > > And... any thoughts on this subject? > I'd prefer to have those features enabled by useflag, sometimes (eg. qemu) I can split functionality in separated ebuild and use a metaebuild to let users merge both w/out major overhead. In your case a useflag IMHO would be enough since the situation require a particular setup and in the case the constraint changes won't be a problem rebuild a full mysql. The question is, does the mysql configure script have a "clientonly" and/or a "libraryonly" option? There were a client and server useflag discussion before. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
