On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Bjarne D Mathiesen <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > On May 30, 2012, at 11:08, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
> >> after installing mysql55 you'll have to select a version to symlink into
> >> ${prefix}/bin as below :
> >
> > You don't *have* to. You *can*, if you want to be able to type "mysql"
> and have it do something. (Otherwise, you have to type the full path to
> mysql55.)
>
> I _do_ know that ;-)
> But I do think that is one of the things that trips him up, as I suppose
> most newbies would expect a mysql binary to be in ${PATH}. And I did
> want to KISS a little ;-)
>
Which is fine until you need multiple versions installed. I don't know if
it's in place yet (the ports are being reorganized, I believe) but the
intent is that "port select" be used to select which one is visible on the
default $PATH, while allowing all of them to be installed (for their
libraries; it could be argued that libraries should be a separate port, but
I suspect anyone who does so argue wins the right to redesign the ports to
do so...).
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