[solved] mysql-gui-tools without mysql?

[Zatic]

Hi community,

I want to merge mysql-gui-tools on my desktop to maintain Mysql on my home server. However, Mysql itself seems to be a dependency. But I want to avoid merging Mysql on the the desktop; Is it somehow possible to install the gui-tools without the server?
Or can someone recommend good GUI alternatives?

Thanks,
Eric

[opentaka]

Did you ever read the portage manual?
--nodeps
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[didymos]

Did you ever have a question and get a condescending, unhelpful answer? Did you ever read the portage manual, and pay attention? See how annoying that is?

Yeah, --nodeps might possibly work, as long as every other hard dependency has already been satisfied. In this case however, it won't, so you were a dick for absolutely no reason at all.

Zatic: at the very least, the tools need the mysql client libraries, which you can't get without emerging mysql. What you want is to add this to /etc/portage/package.use:

[sobers_2002]

I don't know about how this gui works, but if it can run without mysql being present on the system, you can remove the mysql dependency in the ebuild and put the new ebuild in overlay and then emerge it. Should work if the gui can function w/o mysql.

HTH,
Saurabh
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[Zatic]

Thanks again, didymos!