There are these ebuilds in cvs from few minutes: mysql-4.0.26-r30.ebuild mysql-4.1.15-r30.ebuild mysql-5.0.15-r30.ebuild
these ones contain a starting point ebuild to make a slotted mysql installation. The motivations that push this choice are both developement and user side. Making a long story short there are two points: We want to support every major.minor version of mysql, having slotted mysql make life easyer to developers in testing all supported versions. User side, slotted mysql server and client make possible a smooter upgrade, keeping downtimes to the minimum (a stop and start in the best case). ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Further these days I was wondering to populate a bit more "mysql-herd" of developers and packages, also to cover my personal lack of knowledge on some languages (deeper explanation in private mails ;-) So if you're interested in join the herd, let me know (sorry non-dev, I cannot mentor these days). I'm listed on devaway from 2005-10-01 to 2005-10-10, will answer when I'll come back. Cheers, Francesco Riosa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list