From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: realnc@arcor.de
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 23:13:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110903231359.32fe5b10@rohan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j3u3s6$kdl$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:49:41 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> 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
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-03 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-02 15:34 [gentoo-user] equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 James
2011-09-02 15:59 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-09-02 16:09 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-02 16:25 ` James
2011-09-02 19:06 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-02 19:17 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-02 19:32 ` Brennan Shacklett
2011-09-03 10:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-03 19:26 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-03 10:55 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-09-03 13:20 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-03 15:27 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-09-03 18:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-03 20:49 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-09-03 21:13 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-09-02 16:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-09-03 13:15 ` Peter Humphrey
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