Subject: Re: package directory naming (and renaming devel/swig to devel/swig11)
To: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/07/2006 11:38:05
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:26:30AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:18:32 +0000 (GMT)
> David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> > > * mysql-{client,server} <- 5.x
> > > * mysql4-{client,server} <- 4.1.x
> > >
> > > mysql-4.0.x won't be mantained anymore, it's time to
> > > remove it.
> > 
> >  	We have mysql3-* as well. I'd be more inclined to keep the
> >  	mysql5-* names as they currently are, as postgres??-* does,
> >  	but I'm not religious about it :)
> 
> How about mysql3, mysql4, mysql5 and make mysql a meta package that
> depends on the latest version at any time?  It can depend on mysql5 for
> now and be changed when mysql6 comes out.  That way people who just
> always want the latest version can install mysql and others can install
> the specific version they require.

I removed the mysql-* packages (4.0.26) for now.  We can still add the
meta-pkgs later, however I'm not sure that is necessary/useful (we don't do
that for postgresql, or kde, either).  

	Geert