From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:16:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <358eca8f1003050416o692be03en56a8f24890ec1d75@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100305094207.2a4944eb@digimed.co.uk>
On 5 March 2010 09:42, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
Of course! It was all in the pkg_name. Thank you Neil.
--
Regards,
Mick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-05 12:17 UTC|newest]
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
2010-03-05 12:16 ` Mick [this message]
2010-03-04 16:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-04 17:22 ` Mick
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=358eca8f1003050416o692be03en56a8f24890ec1d75@mail.gmail.com \
--to=michaelkintzios@gmail.com \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox