Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild design issue regarding some {I need the lib and api only}-DEPENDs

[Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>]

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

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Luca Barbato

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