On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 01:25:22PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > The standard way of storing the root password for MySQL is in > ~root/.my.cnf.. It should look something like this: > [mysqladmin] > user = username > password = password > In any case, I don't think it wise to add/remove databases on > installation/removal, that should probably be left up to the user to do > - I don't think any package, including TWIG, which needs MySQL to run, > installs a database automatically. I've been quite pleased with the progress that the horde2 and imp3 packages have made so far in supporting automatic database creation at package install time, and I also don't have a problem with deleting the databases at purge time -- so long as the package asks before deleting! Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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