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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql is being pulled in again!
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:45:36 +0200
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On 03/04/2010 05:37 PM, Mick wrote:
> I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again.  This
> morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch
> of perl and virtual packages in there too.  Rest assured dev-db/mysql
> was in there, again.  This is despite the fact that the mysql use flag
> seem to be not active as far as portage is concerned:

That doesn't matter.  USE flags is for optional stuff, not required 
stuff.  It's like having the kde USE flag disabled and wondering why 
emerging a KDE application wants to pull-in kdelibs...