Bug 390859

Summary:	www-apps/mediawiki should enforce that a db is enabled
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sebastian Luther (few) <SebastianLuther>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Christian Parpart (RETIRED) <trapni>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	web-apps
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sebastian Luther (few) 2011-11-17 19:19:10 UTC

<few_> do I see it correctly that it needs at least one database use flag enabled?
<few_> if yes it should have a REQUIRED_USE to enforce this
<radhermit> few_: or rather a use default
<few_> radhermit: you could do that too. but it still calls for REQUIRED_USE.
<radhermit> feel free to open a bug
<radhermit> as I'm not going to do it right this moment

Comment 1 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev

2011-11-18 12:49:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> <few_> do I see it correctly that it needs at least one database use flag
> enabled?
> <few_> if yes it should have a REQUIRED_USE to enforce this
> <radhermit> few_: or rather a use default
> <few_> radhermit: you could do that too. but it still calls for REQUIRED_USE.
> <radhermit> feel free to open a bug
> <radhermit> as I'm not going to do it right this moment

Web apps that require a database backend should not require a db USE flag because the database might be hosted on a different server than the apache+php files.

Warnings or info messages alerting the user to the effect that they do need some db server somewhere is a good idea though.  For moodle I put it in webapp-config instructions.

Comment 2 Tim Harder gentoo-dev

2011-12-09 22:27:39 UTC

Closing as won't fix because databases don't have to be hosted on the same machine and creating/configuring the db is mentioned in the postinstall message.