Bug 577042

Summary:	virtual/mysql-5.6-r8: Now enforces server but is depended on by many client-only ebuilds
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bernd Feige <Bernd.Feige>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux MySQL bugs team <mysql-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bernd Feige 2016-03-11 09:00:24 UTC

virtual/mysql-5.6-r8 was changed from virtual/mysql-5.6-r7 to now require a mysql server on the current system.

While this corresponds to the description of the virtual "Virtual for MySQL database server", there are clearly client-only ebuilds such as dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.32.0-r1 and net-analyzer/monitoring-plugins-2.1.2[mysql] which depend upon virtual/mysql. Even mariadb[-server] currently ends up depending upon virtual/mysql through mysql-multilib-r1.eclass.

This obviously is not a problem on systems with USE=server set on mysql or mariadb, or percona-server, but leads to clashes on client machines where mysql or mariadb is installed with -server. 

So I guess we can either continue with the lenient definition of virtual/mysql-5.6-r7, which made no assumptions on the server use flag of other packages, or add a "server" use flag to virtual/mysql as well (and probably in any case change the description to "Virtual for MySQL database").

Best regards,
Bernd

Comment 1 Brian Evans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-03-11 13:36:13 UTC

If an ebuild requires the client libraries, it should depend on virtual/libmysqlclient.

This was created almost a year ago so that virtual/mysql would be the server virtual.

I'll make an announcement on the developer list to get some push going.

Creating bugs here is also appropriate including a tracker.
I don't have the time to walk though every package personally though.