[debian-mysql] Bug#548419: mysql-server-5.0: Split package (embedded vs. stand-alone server)

[Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder]

Package: mysql-server-5.0
Version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny2
Severity: wishlist

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Heyho!

As I've said in my previous bug report, I've installed mysql-server only
because KDE depends on it (IIRC akonadi uses it somehow.)

Sionce akonadi will start a local (as user, opposed to the normal system wide
db) mysql instance by default, there are now presumably many people who have a
mysql-server installed which is not used, but which starts at boot, eats
memory, uses a bit CPU, makes boot and shutdown longer etc.

Is it possible to somehow split mysql so that the part used by applications
like KDE (who use it more like one would use sqlite or berkeleydb, really, but
with  the features of a real database) could be used in a dependency without
having a system wide mysql daemon running idle?

cheers
- -- vbi


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (199, 'oldstable'), (60, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.24            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.9-25            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbi-perl            1.605-1           Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1.1       GCC support library
ii  libmysqlclient15off    5.0.51a-24+lenny2 MySQL database client library
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20081213-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3.1           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1.1         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwrap0               7.6.q-16          Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mysql-client-5.0       5.0.51a-24+lenny2 MySQL database client binaries
ii  mysql-common           5.1.37-2          MySQL database common files (e.g. 
ii  passwd                 1:4.1.1-6         change and administer password and
ii  perl                   5.10.0-19lenny2   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  psmisc                 22.6-1            Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 recommends:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii  libhtml-template-p 2.9-1                 HTML::Template : A module for usin

Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 suggests:
pn  tinyca                        <none>     (no description available)

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