On Thursday 18 August 2005 19:01, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > maillog: 18/08/2005-16:28:40(+0200): Christian Parpart types > > > 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 - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, > fonts, most drivers, non-critical features) > vanilla - Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour
I agree with these definitions. however, why I was refering to the "minimal" use-flag anyway, was, because comment 1 in the bug-report statet, that we *do* have the "minimal" use-flag to achieve, what the bug-reporter was intending to get (a splitout of client-only libs/headers); Extract of comment 1 in the bug: | New ebuilds have the "minimal" use flag. This flag build the server with | "configure --without-server" . | explaining better this last point. You still need to download ALL the | package from MySQL site *BUT* only the libraries will be installed. They reason for why I was ever intending to ask here on -dev and why I'm CCed in the bug still is: * it looks a little overbloated, when you wanna install cat/foo ebuild that supports to back its data to mySQL instead of sqlite, and you *have* to install a server for that (not always); this might be irrelevant for desktop machines, but the hell not for servers; you can't predict, that you maintain INSTALL_MASK-alike var to prevent such things being installed. you (in first place) do not know what you all need to mask anyway * a useflag (so I use and understand them) are for enabling features or other *extra* advantages (like kdeenablefinal or debug); * while having not taken a look at the mysql build side, I don't believe, that it would be an overhead in splitting out libmysqlclient (and that's what we're finally talking about) and making (for backwards compatibility and use) it a depend to the already existing dev-db/mysql package; Regards, Christian Parpart. -- 04:26:38 up 148 days, 17:34, 1 user, load average: 0.86, 1.39, 1.97
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