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 1QzxiM-0006BQ-U2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:25:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA56121C06C; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 21:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2ADE21C250 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 21:14:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj26 with SMTP id 26so3030466wwj.4 for ; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:14:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=l4rBahH2UZeRlIC5x0UAv1xtPTNSWIh6qmP5pssvSWQ=; b=i4uO1bYtykwUT5R4rIIMqydeUmrax6uIxhq/Tqs1cEZfhbz84YUgxp8FrEBSHuJr0/ 2865wwDAVkI0s6OzllHzYPOQr8RHzb1aqc7JWaxAv4BP49MkTsOBPtTZ9E0Ajx5vqUqI nal7DRa+Lu0jV1eBKCp1cmjg71IfHv4HZcnTk= Received: by 10.227.57.77 with SMTP id b13mr2371143wbh.96.1315084481185; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rohan (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fd4sm3073902wbb.21.2011.09.03.14.14.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 23:13:59 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: realnc@arcor.de Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 Message-ID: <20110903231359.32fe5b10@rohan> In-Reply-To: References: <201109031420.05672.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201109031952.58119.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8af5f0b5da764f673927727f4fa62f24 On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:49:41 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras 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