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