On Oct 26, 2008, at 22:49, William Siegrist wrote:
On Oct 26, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
There seem to be some ports (e.g. ntop, mysql5) with a +server
variant
that does nothing but create a startupitem. It seems to me that it
would
be much better to remove the variant and just always create the
startupitem, since the cost of creating a startupitem is negligible,
while the cost of having to recompile the port if you forget to
specify
+server is considerable.
Agreed. And if the server functionality is expensive to build, I
prefer the postgresql model of having *-server ports that can be
built separately when possible.
It's possible to disable building the server parts by adding --
without-server. The mysql5-devel port does this; it was requested in
this ticket:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/14146
However, that's incompatible with the desire to have a separate
mysql5-server port as requested in this ticket:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12313
The server variant was added to mysql5 in this revision:
http://trac.macports.org/changeset/13929
I can't say I know why it was added as a variant and not by default.
I'm not opposed to changing it.
There are those who complain when ports cannot be installed by non-
root and then we end up adding +no_startupitem variants, like the
apache2 port has. Comments on this?
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