From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ds4sc-0008RQ-Bp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:27:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6BKPqtK008532; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:25:52 GMT Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6BKJYOt016834 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:19:34 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.133.177]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IJH006H4CHMK7LN@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:20:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06C66ABD; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:21:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cornholio [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22954-07; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:20:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cdnebinge (jnet.state.pa.us [206.224.31.162]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:20:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:20:50 -0400 From: "Dave Nebinger" Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] New MySQL doc In-reply-to: <20050712133816.74d66597@localhost> To: Cc: Message-id: <002801c58656$081db040$5f01010a@jnetlab.lcl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; h=Received:Received:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:In-Reply-To:Importance:X-MimeOLE:X-Virus-Scanned; b=UbEv96lYeDaIJ8s9+nlg5D32cwQ1HxfZHhcP8AAKTjFVffOVMuG7rUS+l1whsRnqlYEcq7wMZTxu6w3mnWGnPuOh1w4wCYp2wR0wylyarXTYRx8U14SI4VDUdQVDFB4aH8QzBcZ70iDaCiMxLG3y/wIiCRilZQwHa5lgQkWOHt0=; c=nofws; d=joat.com; q=dns; s=selector1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.3.1 (20050509) at joat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6BKJYOt016834 X-Archives-Salt: 7d68e125-f8bc-487b-b1df-fbe16ff41103 X-Archives-Hash: 742df272e96aa1c48343807383ee19bf > Here's the initial devspace draft of the new MySQL draft I've been working > on: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html > > Comments, etc are welcome. While the document is a good and short intro to MySQL, I still have to ask "why?" Aren't there enough similar good short introductions? As far as the gentoo-specific stuff, there's no mention of how to MySQL-enable other packages, no mention of why you would want to do the "ebuild ... config" step and not the simpler "emerge mysql", ... Seriously, I'm not trying to rain on your parade, Chris; I'm just trying to figure out why we need this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list