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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: realnc@×××××.de
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:25:23
Message-Id: 20110903231359.32fe5b10@rohan
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:49:41 +0300
2 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > On 09/03/2011 09:52 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
5 > > On Saturday 03 September 2011 16:27:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
6 > >
7 > >> Which is 100% correct behavior. Nothing in your system needed
8 > >> MySQL installed, and qt-sql was merged without the "mysql" USE
9 > >> flag.
10 > >
11 > > Except that it hadn't happened before. The system had been sitting
12 > > happily humming away, being updated daily, and then suddenly it
13 > > realised that it had excess packages on its hands. I couldn't see
14 > > anything to explain why it happened just yesterday, not a week or a
15 > > fortnight ago.
16 >
17 > The warning was here. You just missed it :-) Recently, I did an
18 > "emerge -auDN world", and there was a USE flag change. Namely
19 > "mysql" was removed from the default enabled flags of qt-sql, marked
20 > as "-mysql" in a yellow color.
21 >
22 > Yeah, it's easy to miss. But using Gentoo for quite a while now,
23 > I've learned to pay attention to the smallest detail in the output of
24 > emerge before entering "y" ;-)
25
26 +1
27
28 I took to training my eyes to scan down emerge output (colourized)
29 looking for anything in green or yellow. Deal with those first, then
30 look at everything else.
31
32 Saved myself a lot of grief that way.
33
34 --
35 Alan McKinnnon
36 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com