On Thursday 04 March 2010 17:37:23 Mick wrote: > I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This > morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch > of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-db/mysql > was in there, again. This is despite the fact that the mysql use flag > seem to be not active as far as portage is concerned: > > # euse -i mysql > global use flags (searching: mysql) > ************************************************************ > [- ] mysql - Adds mySQL Database support > > local use flags (searching: mysql) > ************************************************************ > [- ] mysql (app-admin/ulogd): > Build MYSQL output plugin to save packets in a mysql database. > > [- ] mysql (net-misc/mediatomb): > Use dev-db/mysql as backend rather than SQLite3. If this USE flag is > disabled, dev-db/sqlite is used in its stead. > > Looking into it further I see that the virtual package is pulling the > database in: > > # equery depends dev-db/mysql > [ Searching for packages depending on dev-db/mysql... ] > virtual/mysql-5.0 (=dev-db/mysql-5.0*) > > # equery depends virtual/mysql > [ Searching for packages depending on virtual/mysql... ] > dev-db/mysql-5.0.84-r1 (=virtual/mysql-5.0) > dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-r1 (mysql? virtual/mysql) > dev-libs/redland-1.0.10-r1 (mysql? virtual/mysql) > dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.00.5 (virtual/mysql) > x11-libs/qt-sql-4.6.2 (mysql? virtual/mysql) > > So, is this telling me the virtual mysql package depends of the real > mysql and vice versa? Should I give up and accept that just like a > LAMP build, from now on a Linux desktop *must* run mysql and nothing > else will do? I've read that sqlite is borked and won't do what > semantic-desktop wants, but what about people who for arguments sake > want to run postgress or some other database?
The tool you want to answer this question is emerge -t There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a package that must have it. If a user wants postgres, he should install and run postgres. How would this affect the presence or absence of mysql? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
