Hi Maciej, Am 15.01.2010 um 10:22 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski's message of Fri Nov 06 15:44:01 >>> -0500 2009: >>> >>>> Do you think it's better to keep the symlink or to remove it? I'm >>>> inclined to do the latter. >>> >>> I'd keep it. Somebody, somewhere, has a script that doesn't include >>> /opt/csw/mysql5/bin in the PATH and relies on finding those symlinks. >> >> I think we are talking about different symlinks. The symlinks I'm >> thinking of removing is: >> >> /opt/csw/lib/mysql --> /opt/csw/mysql5/lib/mysql > > Dago has recently asked me about restoring this symlink. It's > certainly technically possible, but let me ask this question: > > This symlink, if I understand correctly, makes it impossible to have > multiple MySQL databases installed at the same time, because > /opt/csw/lib/mysql is "the MySQL database", which is something people > were arguing against (notably, Phil).
No, this is just transitional for packages that have /opt/csw/lib/mysql as runpath. It will be discarded when all these packages have been redone. Otherwise all these packages will remain broken. Best regards -- Dago _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
