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[Sergei Golubchik <sergii@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Michael!

On Aug 16, Michael Widenius wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> >>>>> "Sergei" == Sergei Golubchik <sergii@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> <cut>
> 
> >> We can't do this with the plugins, as we don't know for an old
> >> installation what plugins the user wanted to install.
> 
> > All of them, of course.
> > If all plugins will be compiled in - they'll be all installed.
> > Installing them all in mysql_fix_privilege_tables will produce basically
> > the same effect.
>  
> This doesn't work as we don't know which plugins that should be
> installed for an old installation.
> 
> For an old installation, an user may already decided that some plugins
> should be installed and others should not.  Adding things that he
> doesn't want in mysql_fix_privilege_tables is not an option.
> 
> Another thing is that he may have used the source installation himself
> and compiled things into the source. In this case switching to a our
> distribution where things needs to be loaded would cause extra work
> for him.

I don't understand what you're talking about.

How could installing everything via mysql.plugin be worse than
installing everything by compiling everything in ?

Can you come up with an example of an "old installation" where
installing plugins from mysql_fix_privilege_tables is "not an option" ?
 
Regards / Mit vielen Grüßen,
Sergei

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