From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NnU3f-0005vz-QT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:43:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A326E0EE3; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FEFE0EE3 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 00D82629A5A for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:42:13 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:42:07 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again! Message-ID: <20100305094207.2a4944eb@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1003042253p438a9995xa8271a5e1d6dca42@mail.gmail.com> References: <358eca8f1003040737n445d0aa0k54e1a136c3a5e4e4@mail.gmail.com> <201003041757.15178.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <358eca8f1003040907r248b3dcjf9aada6f30734aa@mail.gmail.com> <201003042207.14405.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <358eca8f1003042253p438a9995xa8271a5e1d6dca42@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs31 (GTK+ 2.18.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/jKQgcpQOoIBWVwrSxZF4gMc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: f2b9b497-7840-448d-b1dc-01b07a66768c X-Archives-Hash: 5c927da7ace9bf3731a328a76f430d67 --Sig_/jKQgcpQOoIBWVwrSxZF4gMc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Last yur I kudnt spel modjerater now I are won. --Sig_/jKQgcpQOoIBWVwrSxZF4gMc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuQ0fQACgkQum4al0N1GQNDAQCgwhMJhDPzgYADjQD2/7u11r9j /3MAn18r5niC6YWAv0zHfGmXDPx5fzB1 =EVFZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/jKQgcpQOoIBWVwrSxZF4gMc--