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

[Brian Jackson <iggy@gentoo.org>]

Use INSTALL_MASK to keep /usr/bin/mysqld or whatever from getting installed. We 
aren't generally in the habit of splitting packages into a bunch of different 
ebuilds. There are exceptions, but....

--Iggy

Christian Parpart wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> well, regarding the request on bug 88490 [1] (and my own needs) I'm in a deep 
> problem ;)
> 
> There *are* packages out there, that depend on (networking) client libraries 
> (and their headers of course); 
> 
> for the general mysql ebuild, I'd propose the following splitup:
> * dev-db/mysql-server (or myssqld)
> * net-libs/libmysqlclient
> * dev-db/mysql (a meta package that simply depends on both, for backward 
> compat)
> 
> The reason is, that some packages need to talk to (SQL )servers, but some host 
> installation do not need - or even want to (think about security policies) - 
> a local (SQL) server;
> 
> 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.
> 
> This idea of course is applicable for lots of more packages, but mysql is one 
> use case where I myself ran into;
> 
> Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this?
> 
> And... any thoughts on this subject?
> 
> Regards,
> Christian Parpart.
> 
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88490

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