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On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:49:41 +0300 |
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Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 09/03/2011 09:52 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Saturday 03 September 2011 16:27:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >> Which is 100% correct behavior. Nothing in your system needed |
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> >> MySQL installed, and qt-sql was merged without the "mysql" USE |
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> >> flag. |
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> > Except that it hadn't happened before. The system had been sitting |
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> > happily humming away, being updated daily, and then suddenly it |
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> > realised that it had excess packages on its hands. I couldn't see |
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> > anything to explain why it happened just yesterday, not a week or a |
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> > fortnight ago. |
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> The warning was here. You just missed it :-) Recently, I did an |
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> "emerge -auDN world", and there was a USE flag change. Namely |
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> "mysql" was removed from the default enabled flags of qt-sql, marked |
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> as "-mysql" in a yellow color. |
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> Yeah, it's easy to miss. But using Gentoo for quite a while now, |
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> I've learned to pay attention to the smallest detail in the output of |
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> emerge before entering "y" ;-) |
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+1 |
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I took to training my eyes to scan down emerge output (colourized) |
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looking for anything in green or yellow. Deal with those first, then |
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look at everything else. |
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Saved myself a lot of grief that way. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |