On Jul 25, 2008, at 14:35, Landon Fuller wrote: > On Jul 25, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Uwe Schwartz wrote: > >> I would like to add a variant to a port which should create a >> StartupItem. >> In the MacPort Guide the example uses "server" as name for the >> variant. >> Is this common practice? Or are there any other suggestions? > > I would suggest either *always* installing the startup item (but > disabled by default), or creating a new port, <base port>-server, > that depends on the base port and declares only a startup item. > > The postgresql ports all provide "-server" ports -- you don't have > to rebuild the whole port just to add a startup item. > > In contrast, I can't tell you the number of times I had employees > accidentally build MySQL without the +server variant on their > workstation, and then have to rebuild it all again just for the > startup item.
Mhm. The mysql5 port should be changed. Here's the ticket: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12313 There's also mysql5-devel. Should there be a separate mysql5-devel- server port? Or mysql5-server-devel? Or would the mysql5-server port be written to use either mysql5 or mysql5-devel? I'm thinking this last option is best if it's possible. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
