Re: [gentoo-admin] Newbie admin - help with mysql

[Maurice E Johnson]

But wouldn't an attempt to install an app dependent on mysql
        potentially succeed eroniously? What I'm trying to see - and
        education is always a good thing - is that in order to truely
        block mysql, you would need something a bit more complex than an
        entree in /etc/portage/package.provided.
        
        Something in addition? like:
        
        equery --nocolor hasuse mysql|awk '{print ">="$1}' >
        </etc/portage/package.provided|/etc/portage/package.mask>
        
        to avoid the consequences of basically saying that it's there
        when it isn't?
        
        I have read the man page, but it doesn't seem to address the
        consequenses down the road for this condition.