echo '<dev-db/mysql-5.0' > /etc/portage/package.unmask
That's not so hard is it? True, the version you'd get is 4.1.8 rather than the latest, but it's definitely not difficult to access what is available.
Regards, Jason Stubbs
dormando wrote: > You know there are more deps to it than that. There's also the > MySQL-administrator, the query browser, and all related deps you have > to deal with. None of these are very mask-precious, and you can be > sure that most users interested in all of these features won't have > the know-how to set this up.
I have mysql-4.1 running on four servers. I have never used nor know about "MySQL-administrator" or "the query browser". I do know that setting up mysql-4.1 instead of mysql-4.0 was as simple as the above.
> Sure, say that it's easy to unmask like that; but where is it obvious > to 90% of your users about what to do in order to get MySQL 4.1 up and > running?
The Gentoo handbook.
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