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Date:      Tue, 12 Nov 2019 23:55:36 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Omg upgrade wants to install MySQL
Message-ID:  <5DCAE408.2090507@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <CC009D0F-DC36-4D9B-85AA-3B00EEF4A909@kreme.com>
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On 03.11.2019 21:03, @lbutlr wrote:

>>> On 02 Nov 2019, at 19:35, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote:
>>>> I prefer third option. Sometimes it is handy to "pkg lock" packages you installed from ports buiklt with non-default options, too.
>>>
>>> If I could tell which pkg install is going to install MySQL and libX stuff I would lock those, but I Dion’t see anyway to check that.
>>
>> You need to lock MariaDB.
> 
> MariaDB *is* locked. Both client and server. Pkg update was still going to install MySQL.

pkg has no choice, as official package repo contains packages built with MySQL dependency only.

>>> And it does seem odd that pkg is still assuming MySQL and desktop FreeBSD.
>>> I know of many 120 FreeBSD servers and not one has a GUI desktop.
>>> I mean, I am sure they exist, but they must be a pretty tiny sliver.
>>
>> First, it is NOT pkg assuming anything. Package repository has packages built from ports with their *default* options
>> and pkg merely uses them.
> 
> Fine. Ports assuming MySQL.

Yes. You still may change defaults and rebuild those ports yourself.
Same with X11 support.




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