Robin H. Johnson wrote: > It depends hugely on the structure of the code-base. In MySQL for > example, if you wanted to build only the server, you'd still need a big > hunk of the shared code (it's one set of code, that is compiled in two > different ways, once for the client, and once for the server), and > building the server actually requires building the client anyway (plus > the proper shared libs) thus splitting out the source for lib, client, > server does not make sense. > > One of the other arguments I have against the split, and it applies to > both CVS and MySQL - is that if you don't build the server, you cannot > use src_test. > So fine if you have to you download and build both. Doesn't mean you want to install it (although I agree it's nice that users have the server automatically and disk space is yadda yadda..) Point really is that this is a misuse of the minimal flag, it was acknowledged as such when first used in this way (don't cha just love mailing-list archives? ;) and doesn't fit users' needs because it was designed for a different purpose.
Seven ebuilds are already using server- what's wrong with that? Not every pkg has to have it in IUSE, so in your example mySQL could carry on as is and users who really care can run a script to get rid of the files they don't want. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
