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| author | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2019-02-20 15:11:50 +0000 |
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| committer | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2019-02-20 15:11:50 +0000 |
| commit | 16449a80e28af2209916cc66d19c9a44ca2b90d9 (patch) | |
| tree | b4cfe2332c7a6c5da27b6985bf05db4508df1a92 /metadata/news/2019-02-13-virtual-mysql-depenedency | |
| parent | 79599515788b85b18aa655e7b7f8cc05c1bbddd8 (diff) | |
gentoo resync : 20.02.2019
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diff --git a/metadata/news/2019-02-13-virtual-mysql-depenedency/2019-02-13-virtual-mysql-depenedency.en.txt b/metadata/news/2019-02-13-virtual-mysql-depenedency/2019-02-13-virtual-mysql-depenedency.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..29258deef397 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2019-02-13-virtual-mysql-depenedency/2019-02-13-virtual-mysql-depenedency.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Title: MySQL server and library dependency shift +Author: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2019-02-13 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: virtual/mysql + +Due to the complexity of supporting multiple client libraries, +the Gentoo MySQL maintainers have decided to drop dependencies on the +server installation where it is not absolutely necessary. + +This will mean that packages might not automatically install the server +as a dependency since it does not have to exist on the local machine. + +To ensure uninterrupted service, verify that the server package, +such as dev-db/mariadb, dev-db/mysql, etc, is included in the world file +where it is in operation. This can be accomplished by running emerge +with the --noreplace option. +Eg.: emerge --noreplace dev-db/mariadb |