Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

2006-02-03 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 10:19 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: Ok, I've been realized that having a slotted mysql is not the dream of every end user ... or developer. Anyway I prefere too keep the possibility to do a similar install. A good solution should be to add the multislot USE flag to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

2006-02-03 Thread Francesco Riosa
Carlos Silva wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 10:19 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: Ok, I've been realized that having a slotted mysql is not the dream of every end user ... or developer. Anyway I prefere too keep the possibility to do a similar install. A good solution should be to add the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

2006-02-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +, Francesco Riosa wrote: A good solution should be to add the multislot USE flag to the ebuild and let it to decide whenever make it slotted or not, sorry, this is not viable, yes it's already used by other important packages but not well supported by

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

2006-02-03 Thread Jakub Moc
Honestly, I don't see why is this needed. It works the same way like apache slots or php slots or whatever other slots. If users emerge an ebuild explicitely, they get the highest version available, if they want something else, they can do echo =dev-db/mysql-5* /etc/portage/package.mask That's

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

2006-02-03 Thread Francesco Riosa
Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +, Francesco Riosa wrote: A good solution should be to add the multislot USE flag to the ebuild and let it to decide whenever make it slotted or not, sorry, this is not viable, yes it's already used by other important packages but