FreeBSD Port: databases/p5-DBD-MariaDB

Mathieu Arnold mat at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 7 09:50:26 UTC 2021


On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 05:53:08AM +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote:
> Hello,
>   I wonder why does the package depends on mysqlclient and not on mariadb ?
> That package seems to be useless because it is the same as
> databases/p5-DBD-mysql. Am I missing something ?

Because the choice of mysql/mariadb is left to the user building the
packages, via DEFAULT_VERSIONS.  The default is some version of mysql,
so if you are using the pre-built packages, you get mysql.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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