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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why does mysqlnd get included in Linux 'core' PHP5
 packages?
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 03.09.2011 14:00, schrieb Lester Caine:
>
>> >  Current state of play, the SUSE install includes mysqlnd with the core package, and mysql and mysqli are available
>> >  as extra packages. Again - nowdays the 'required' dependency on MySQL does seem to have been dropped, but other PHP
>> >  extensions sometimes flag that they need it - even when they don't
> and that is why libmysql-support should be dropped to get this clean
>
> the other extensions MAY require mysql
> if they use mysqlnd they do not
> if they use libmysql they do
>
> mysqlnd does exactly what you want - there is no longer any mysql-package
> needed on a server to have mysql-support in php because libmysql would
> not be needed - i really do not understand why tis legacy libmysql-support
> will not be simply dropped - nobody needs this these days in php
>
> on the other hand that some auto-tests seem behave differently depending
> on mysqlnd/libmysql shows that the existence of both makes only troubles
>
> normally a auto-tets shuld have ONE expected result

In my own case I do not require any MySQL support ;)
I've only got Firebird as a database server, so I simply ignore any of the MySQL 
stuff, however it would be nice to be able to switch it off altogether ;)

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