On 5 March 2010 09:42, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 06:53:15 +, Mick wrote:
>
>> I was trying to understand why a virtual package like virtual/mysql is
>> pulling in dev-db/mysql and I used the syslog virtual/real
>> relationship as an analogy.
>
> The clue is in the name of the v
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 06:53:15 +, Mick wrote:
> I was trying to understand why a virtual package like virtual/mysql is
> pulling in dev-db/mysql and I used the syslog virtual/real
> relationship as an analogy.
The clue is in the name of the virtual, it is satisfied by one of the
MySQL packages i
On 4 March 2010 20:07, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:07:22 Mick wrote:
>> > There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a
>> > package that must have it.
>>
>> If a package must have it, wouldn't the USE flag mysql switch to + ?
>
> Your post seems to ind
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:07:14 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Again, you appear to fail to understand. metalog supports a variety of
> database backends. Not all apps are like this, some are hard-coded. If
> you want to use an app like this, you have no choice but to install
> mysql.
>
> If you don'
On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:07:22 Mick wrote:
> > There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a
> > package that must have it.
>
> If a package must have it, wouldn't the USE flag mysql switch to + ?
Your post seems to indicate a lack of understanding of how these things wor
Since you already merged it in:
# equery depends mysql
then unmerge or correct USE flags for dependent apps.
To have portage error out instead of merging mysql in the future:
# echo "dev-db/mysql" >/etc/portage/package.mask/I_said_no_mysql
HTH,
Roy
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:07:22 +, Mick wrote:
> > The tool you want to answer this question is
> >
> > emerge -t
>
> Right, but I started this mammoth emerge before I spent enough time
> looking at its contents I'm afraid.
The use emerge --depclean -pv dev-db/mysql
> > There will be a reason w
On 4 March 2010 15:57, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 04 March 2010 17:37:23 Mick wrote:
>> I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This
>> morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch
>> of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:57:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> The tool you want to answer this question is
>
> emerge -t
>
> There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a
> package that must have it.
I notice qt-sql is in the list, does that have the mysql flag forced on?
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On Thursday 04 March 2010 17:37:23 Mick wrote:
> I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This
> morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch
> of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-db/mysql
> was in there, again. This is despite t
I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This
morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch
of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-db/mysql
was in there, again. This is despite the fact that the mysql use flag
seem to be not active a
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