[gentoo-user] MySQL related portage recommended *downgrades*?

[William Yang]

I've been a Gentoo user for a while now (this is based on a 2004.1 box, 
but I've been syncing and upgrading every week or two), and I'm a little 
confused about a recent change.

I run mysql 4.0.22-r2 on a production machine on a x86 
(i686-pc-linux-gnu); after the last sync of the portage tree, the system 
now recommends a DOWNGRADE to 3.23.58-r1.

# emerge --pretend --update world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     UD] dev-db/mysql-3.23.58-r1 [4.0.22-r2]
[ebuild     UD] net-www/mod_auth_mysql-1.11 [20030510-r2]
While I understand how to avoid applying these changes, I'm trying to 
understand why this change is now being recommended.  I'm also confused, 
as http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mod_auth_mysql doesn't 
show mod_auth_mysql as being stable, and the latest stable for mysql is 
4.0.22-r2 on x86 architectures.

Why these downgrade recommendations?
        -Bill
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William Yang
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