[146276] trunk/dports/databases

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Mar 5 03:39:40 PST 2016


> On Mar 3, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 3, 2016, at 12:14 AM, Juan Manuel Palacios <jmpp at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Bradley,
>> 
>> I think you and I already discussed this in some thread, but I can’t remember right now… 
>> 
>> What’s the point of the mysql5 port now a-days? I’d say it’s redundant with mysql51, but not even, ‘cause it’s outdated with respect to it, 5.1.72 Vs. 5.1.73. Shouldn’t we just obsolete that port and have it replaced by mysql51?
> 
> 
> These ports have dependencies on mysql5 either directly or through variants:
> port info --name --variants depends:"(\W|^)mysql5(\W|$)" or variant:"(\W|^)mysql5(\W|$)" | grep -E "^name:|^variants:.*mysql5|—"
> 
> Ticket discussing issue:
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43431

It's been so long, I think it's probably find to make mysql5 replaced_by mysql51, even if there are still ports depending on mysql5. The old php5- ports were deleted awhile ago, even though there are still ancient ports declaring dependencies on them.




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