[gentoo-commits] data/gentoo-news:master commit in: 2019-02-13-virtual-mysql-depenedency/

[gentoo-commits] data/gentoo-news:master commit in: 2019-02-13-virtual-mysql-depenedency/

[Brian Evans]

commit:     c75ca1e8791a5ccd9ce2f298a8490e4f4ad61d68
Author:     Brian Evans <grknight <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 18 13:58:08 2019 +0000
Commit:     Brian Evans <grknight <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Mon Feb 18 13:58:08 2019 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=c75ca1e8

New news item for MySQL-like servers

This forewarns sysadmins to take action on local machines as dependencies
change in packages away from automatic server installations.

Most packages are going to only install the libraries by default.

Signed-off-by: Brian Evans <grknight <AT> gentoo.org>

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+Title: MySQL server and library dependency shift
+Author: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>
+Posted: 2019-02-13
+Revision: 1
+News-Item-Format: 2.0
+Display-If-Installed: virtual/mysql
+
+Due to the complexity of supporting multiple client libraries,
+the Gentoo MySQL maintainers have decided to drop dependencies on the
+server installation where it is not absolutely necessary.
+
+This will mean that packages might not automatically install the server
+as a dependency since it does not have to exist on the local machine.
+
+To ensure uninterrupted service, verify that the server package,
+such as dev-db/mariadb, dev-db/mysql, etc, is included in the world file
+where it is in operation. This can be accomplished by running emerge
+with the --noreplace option.
+Eg.: emerge --noreplace dev-db/mariadb