From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: 19:56 on 10 Jan 2008 Subject: my(sql) setup agony Why is installing mysql the fun equivalent of picking a zit in your back? It shouldn't be there, you need to do it because it hurts like a damn, but you can't quite reach it, and you fail in mysterious ways, and shouldn't science have progressed far enough by now to now to have to do it? I installed MediaWiki to my Mac last night since I want to try writing something that quite well fits the wiki hyperlinkage model, and I sure as hell don't want to write raw HTML this day and age... I found this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X Notice the roughly 27 easy steps of installing mysql. I don't think it's that mysql in OS X in particular, from my past (unfortunately forgotten by now) experience in other UNIXes it was equally painful. Why do I *always* have to disable remote and local (myql) root access and setup passwords? Storing the access rights of a database *IN THE DATABASE*? Please, just shoot me.
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