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 1NnWT7-0001XC-TS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:17:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29079E0EAE; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com (mail-bw0-f211.google.com [209.85.218.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2CAE0EAE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so273272bwz.29 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:16:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=oK4Qgv66ahrhXhXhoHgrfVvUkfTthBRxkcJjovuKaKY=; b=bzwrQq3HtvXosIn9JRR+7vWvoiOLXOVS1e2YbSKZwx+QfhTO+8skdJGLg4QpRvB8c4 5UkTxPNwAEl6Q8mZ/c6s+Mg3/HxM8+xZ+hh194U/FtmiCALEXE2DCeQ7PzxEeMevwNM3 zCEM3i7HKVgCyKQw04yszSTPNf8439P8dGs08= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=AvcaoYm+qBXQ8/lEsafLE95o46EsPVTW9eJEkZdfSXtCzawE1wextRUWsHu7al52UB feHFOr4coFVuvWqub4y/7KcJMAuNpLgeHiAWGyvTLdspbzHS0lTdeDTAs3xi0B1vGY2x VSyc0ZAgS9z0o4doDKJ2+Hl+WkcRa+toFpcoY= 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 Received: by 10.102.211.34 with SMTP id j34mr155279mug.5.1267791393889; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:16:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100305094207.2a4944eb@digimed.co.uk> 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> <20100305094207.2a4944eb@digimed.co.uk> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:16:33 +0000 Message-ID: <358eca8f1003050416o692be03en56a8f24890ec1d75@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again! From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: bd611688-9313-4d7f-9212-c7167e745584 X-Archives-Hash: 19a90b0332800e15c7ceeb2cfc21f25a On 5 March 2010 09:42, Neil Bothwick 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