On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:49:41 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/03/2011 09:52 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday 03 September 2011 16:27:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > >> Which is 100% correct behavior. Nothing in your system needed > >> MySQL installed, and qt-sql was merged without the "mysql" USE > >> flag. > > > > Except that it hadn't happened before. The system had been sitting > > happily humming away, being updated daily, and then suddenly it > > realised that it had excess packages on its hands. I couldn't see > > anything to explain why it happened just yesterday, not a week or a > > fortnight ago. > > The warning was here. You just missed it :-) Recently, I did an > "emerge -auDN world", and there was a USE flag change. Namely > "mysql" was removed from the default enabled flags of qt-sql, marked > as "-mysql" in a yellow color. > > Yeah, it's easy to miss. But using Gentoo for quite a while now, > I've learned to pay attention to the smallest detail in the output of > emerge before entering "y" ;-) +1 I took to training my eyes to scan down emerge output (colourized) looking for anything in green or yellow. Deal with those first, then look at everything else. Saved myself a lot of grief that way. -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected]
