Package: mysql-server-5.0 Version: 5.0.51a-24 Severity: wishlist
The mysql-server-5.0 package comes with a lot of files that are probbaly used rarely, if ever, and are also rather huge: /usr/bin/ndb_* /usr/sbin/ndb /usr/sbin/mysqlmanager /usr/bin/ndb_* /usr/bin/comp_err /usr/bin/mysql*test* /usr/bin/resolve_stack_dump /usr/bin/resolveip /usr/bin/mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/bin/my_print_defaults /usr/bin/myisam_ftdump /usr/bin/myisamlog /usr/bin/myisampack /usr/share/mysql/mysql-test/ Most of those are the related to the test suite, but some seem to be rather gratitious, such as resolveip, which is 1.3mb in size here and doesn't seem to do anything that a dozen other utilities already do. Most of the commands look like internal commands that are not supposed to be installed anyways. (There also seems to be a dependency on perl somewhere that mysqld itself doesn't seem to have, which pulls in another 50+mb). The files take up more than 100MB on my disk, which is a multiple of the actual mysql database server and it's files. Some programs I left out could clearly be smaller (perror, replace), but are actually used, although they have little to do with a database and should probably also come from some utility package. And some programs such as mysqld_safe seem to be misplaced: mysqld_safe is in /usr/bin, but it's sole purpose is to call mysqld, which is in /usr/sbin. All in all, it seems the mysql install scripts just dump a lot of garbage during installation that shouldn't actually be installed. It would be wonderful if the mysql-server package could be used on smaller systems as well, as the actual server is much much smaller than the rest of the package. Thanks, and feel free to ignore this wishlist request :) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy hi libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbi-perl 1.605-1 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-1~exp1 GCC support library ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.77-1 MySQL database client library ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.2-3.1 GNU readline and history libraries ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-1~exp1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mysql-client-5.0 5.0.77-1 MySQL database client binaries ii mysql-common 5.0.77-1 MySQL database common files ii passwd 1:4.1.1-6 change and administer password and ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent ii libhtml-template-p 2.9-1 HTML::Template : A module for usin Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 suggests: ii tinyca 0.7.5-2 simple graphical program for certi -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
