On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > >> On Tue, October 18, 2011 11:35, Puneet Kishor wrote: >>> potentially stupid question: what is the difference between >>> >>> mysql5 "multithreaded SQL database server" and >>> mysql5-server "multithreaded SQL database server" >> >> -server >> > > well, both describe themselves as "multithreaded SQL database server"
mysql5 builds and installs mysql files. mysql5-server creates mysql system users and launchd items to make running a mysql server easier. If you only need to access a mysql server on another machine you do not need mysql5-server. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
