On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 04:04:41PM +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote:
> in autumn 2005 i used databases/php-mysql for connecting to MySQL 4.1x;
> unfortunately, pkgsrc-current builds php-mysql with a 3.23.x ABI of
> MySQL, whereas connecting to MySQL4 would be possible using php5-mysqli.

This is a multi-version package. The packages it is using is controlled
by MYSQL_VERSION_DEFAULT (50 or version installed) and
PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT (4 or version installed). That applies to trunk,
2005Q4 might have different defaults.

Joerg