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On 5 March 2010 09:42, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 06:53:15 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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>> I was trying to understand why a virtual package like virtual/mysql is |
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>> pulling in dev-db/mysql and I used the syslog virtual/real |
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>> relationship as an analogy. |
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> The clue is in the name of the virtual, it is satisfied by one of the |
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> MySQL packages in portage. You canot simply replace one SQL database with |
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> another, otherwise there's be a virtual/sqldb that would be satisfied by |
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> any of them. |
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Of course! It was all in the pkg_name. Thank you Neil. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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