From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:42:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100305094207.2a4944eb@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1003042253p438a9995xa8271a5e1d6dca42@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 06:53:15 +0000, 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 in portage. You canot simply replace one SQL database with
another, otherwise there's be a virtual/sqldb that would be satisfied by
any of them.
--
Neil Bothwick
Last yur I kudnt spel modjerater now I are won.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 15:37 [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again! Mick
2010-03-04 15:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-04 16:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-04 17:07 ` Mick
2010-03-04 17:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-04 17:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2010-03-04 17:54 ` Roy Wright
2010-03-04 20:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-04 22:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-05 6:53 ` Mick
2010-03-05 9:42 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-03-05 12:16 ` Mick
2010-03-04 16:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-04 17:22 ` Mick
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