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On 09/03/2011 04:20 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Saturday 03 September 2011 11:55:06 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> You can trust it because portage *is* the package manager, and the |
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>> package manager always knows what the dependencies of packages are. |
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>> Tools like equery can do analysis and stuff, but the final decision of |
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>> what gets installed and what's needed is up to Portage. So if you can't |
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>> trust the package manager, you're screwed anyway :-) |
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> Well I did trust it yesterday when it decided it ought to remove MySQL. What |
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> the hell, I thought: I can put it back easily enough. |
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> So today when I started KMail it wouldn't. I had not only to remerge MySQL |
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> but to add mysql USE flag to qt-sql in package.use and remerge qt-sql as |
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> well. |
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Which is 100% correct behavior. Nothing in your system needed MySQL |
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installed, and qt-sql was merged without the "mysql" USE flag. |
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