With the current state of the forks of MySQL diverging, the client libraries are no longer compatible.
Since virtual packages cannot handle rebuilds of subscribed packages when a consumer changes, the following action is to be taken by all developers: If you need libmysqlclient.so, please depend on dev-db/mysql-connector-c. If you need or can use libmariadb.so, please depend on dev-db/mariadb-connector-c. (Yes the above packages coexist just fine.) Please remove references to virtual/libmysqlclient as it does not work as I intended (and explained above). This virtual will be last-rites once nothing depends on it. Please remove all DEPEND on virtual/mysql where it is used for libraries. virtual/mysql is the client and server tools *only*. It is not correct to rely on this for libraries any longer. A good example for DEPEND is tests where the client/server binaries are run. RDEPEND for the purpose of running client/server is fine for virtual/mysql. Almost all of the consumers of virtual/mysql have already been updated (save mysql-cluster). Some are already stable. At a point in the future, likely in 2019, the compatibility DEPEND that exist in the consumers will be removed and may break packages which are not updated. In the coming months, I will try my best to test and report bugs on packages which I can find. I welcome any discussion on the details, but this is the only sane move for Gentoo and the ABI incompatibilities that exist on the client libraries. Thank you, Brian Evans
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