Since mediatomb can be configured to use external mysql server, then I think, it is not strictly needed to have a "need mysql" in mediatomb's init.d script. System info not needed for this bug report. Reproducible: Always
In your case you should build the local mysql with the 'minimal' use flag enabled. If you then rebuild mediatomb, the ebuild should correctly omit 'need mysql' from the init.d script.
(In reply to comment #1) > In your case you should build the local mysql with the 'minimal' use flag > enabled. If you then rebuild mediatomb, the ebuild should correctly omit 'need > mysql' from the init.d script. That isn't obvious. Also, what if you have a local mysql server you don't want to use for this purpose? Corner case, of course, but not that remote.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Make mysql init script optional all the time to support external services http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/mediatomb/files/mediatomb-0.12.1.initd?rev=1.1 http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/mediatomb/mediatomb-0.12.1-r3.ebuild?rev=1.1
