On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 09:32:32PM -0500, Brian Evans wrote: > I have a plan I would like some eyes on... > > I want to gradually *BAN* the use of virtual/mysql and > virtual/libmysqlclient as dependencies. Overall I agree, but there's some slight concerns I have.
> To accomplish this, force dev-db/mysql-connector-c to be the only souce > of libmysqlclient.so. > > Packages that choose to support libmariadb.so instead can include a > libmariadb USE to hook up to dev-db/mariadb-connector-c that will be > introduced (and they can live side-by-side). The motivation for this > could be licensing with libmariadb being LGPL instead of GPL. This is > similar to ffmpeg/libav, except the libraries can co-exist. Have all the concerns about using slightly different libmysqlclient.so builds been resolved? Esp for pre-built binaries (I don't know if there are any left in the tree). > The current providers of virtual/mysql would get a new USE flag that is > MASKED for all users for the transition period and pull in the lib > package(s) when that USE is disabled. > > virtual/mysql would become a server reference for USERS only. It would > be a QA warning violation to depend directly on virtual/mysql as it can > live anywhere. This part worries me slightly. I do understand that mysql-embedded is retired entirely, but apps that spun up their own local mysqld instance would still be affected this this change. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
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