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From: Con Tassios <ct@××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-admin@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-admin] Newbie admin - help with mysql
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:22:07
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0609211309110.12150@ct.cc.swin.edu.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-admin] Newbie admin - help with mysql by Easy-Things Info
1 On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Easy-Things Info wrote:
2
3 > How do I tell gentoo that I don't want - under any circumstances - emerge to
4 > automatically install mysql?
5 > I am using binaries and sources straight from mysql.com.
6 >
7 > I used -mysql in my USE in /etc/make.conf but it doesn't work
8 >
9 > If I try to emerge -p world it tells me that it will install mysql 4.1.x
10
11
12 You could try something like:
13
14 echo "dev-db/mysql-4" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
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