On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:50:43AM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > Two things I'm always wondering about when this topic comes up: > - is there really a need for USE=client? In most cases people request > to exclude the server part, can't remember ever seeing a request to > exclude the client. I can't find the bug right now, but this did pop up where the client was a GUI app, and they wanted to get away from needing all the dependencies it pulled in that way.
> - assuming we ignore the USE=client thing, how many things actually > depend on the server part of say mysql or openldap? For MySQL, I just did a quick survey of the tree, and my personal (private) overlay of testing things. There are 2 packages in the main tree that need a mysql server: dev-db/mytop/mytop, app-admin/eselect-mysql I have another two in my overlay, one of which might not make it to the tree (discussions with upstream about issues the app has) - both of them deal with special stuff to back up a MySQL database with minimal downtime. Also, this will definetly come up more in future, with the new pluggable stuff that MySQL is doing upstream - giving it the ability to add more functionality to the server that is shipped separately (stuff like new data processing functions, new storage engines and more). -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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