On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:03:42PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > I prepared a prototype for a separate mysql-common package (and > default-* packages) at > git://git.debian.org/git/users/anbe/tmp/mysql-defaults.git > but so far nobody had time to review it.
A thought from Norvald. Do we really need more metapackages? What if we
converted the existing virtual-mysql-{server-client} virtual packages
into metapackages generated from src:mysql-defaults instead?
Then these would depend on "mariadb-server | mysql-server" etc. Existing
packages would drop their preferred alternative and depend on
"virtual-mysql-server" only. src:mysql-defaults would then have full
control of the "default" just by swapping the alternatives.
The benefit would be fewer meta/virtual -packages. Is there any use case
that is not covered by this?
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