Bug 27254

Summary:	media-sound/prokyon3 wants to install mysql which is not needed on host
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jens Mayer <jensmayer>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc4
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jens Mayer 2003-08-24 16:27:24 UTC

Prokyon3 is a tool to manage your mp3s with a MySQL database. If you have many
clients and one fileserver, it is a nice feature that prokyon3 can connect to a
remote MySQL-host keeping your database centralized and easy to maintain. 

It doesn't make much sense to me to have MySQL as a dependancy because you don't
need it to run Prokyon3. You need access to a server, local or remotely. Maybe
quoting this after emerging is sufficient, since the description already states
this: "Multithreaded MP3 manager and tag editor based on Qt and MySQL".

Regards,
Jens

Comment 1 J. Ellis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-28 18:53:11 UTC

I think you are probably right that this shouldn't depend on mysql. However,
this
isn't going to allow this package to be installed without mysql on a machine.
Look
at the comment in the ebuild that requires that qt be installed with mysql
support. If you follow the dependencies back to qt, you'll see that with
mysql in
USE qt depends on dev-db/mysql in order to compile the client access library.

So, there is no point in fixing this and the depend is essentially as correct
as
we can make it.