[Bug 259121] databases/tdbc has fixed dependency on mysql client 5.7

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=259121

--- Comment #8 from Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> ---
We tend to make sure a port depends on any package you need to *use* the port.
We differentiate between build dependencies and run dependencies.

Following your reasoning, a package for an interpreted language to wrap the
functionality of a C library shouldn't depend on the C library because it can
be built (i.e., packaged) without. Should p5-Redis depend on Redis? We think it
should, and that's how we organize run-time dependencies. Similarly, it makes
sense for tdbc (when built with the MYSQL option) to depend on the mysql client
library.

USES= mysql
and
USES= mysql:client

do the same thing. Please explain what you are seeing that would suggest
otherwise.

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