Proposing new USE_ knob for p5-DBD-mysql*

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 14:56:27 UTC 2011


On 14 Jul 2011 15:52, "Alex Dupre" <ale at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Chris Rees ha scritto:
>
>> Problem: p5-DBD-mysql[45][0-5] ports are a pain to depend upon in a
>> port, because of the need to differentiate between the mysql versions.
>
>
> Well, actually the situation is better, since MySQL 5.5 is now the default
in FreeBSD and mysql55-scripts doesn't exist anymore. The only reason for
p5-DBD-mysql[45][0-5] ports were the ability to create packages for
mysqlNN-scripts. If you are using packages for an outdated mysql-scripts
port, then you deserve the pain, so you are pushed to update to a recent
release :-)
>

Ahh... so I should have just depended on the versions port?

Chris


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