I've been playing with phpmyadmin package again a bit and one unfortunate detail is that it's not possible to install it without installing all of MySQL5 on localhost, even if one wanted to use it to administer a remote MySQL instance.
That's because phpMyAdmin requires PHP (SUNWphp524) and also the PHP MySQL extension (SUNWphp524-mysql). Now, SUNWphp524-mysql in turn needs the libraries to communicate with MySQL, but these are in SUNWmysql5 which is the full MySQL5 package. It'd be nice to have the MySQL libraries in a separate (hopefully small) package so clients which only need to communicate with a remote instance can depend on that package alone. This is a fairly common case, we already have phpmyadmin and drupal, both of which fall under this scenario, with more to come. (FYI I filed RFE 6728729 to track this, but wanted to mention it for the benefit of the list.) -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
