Newbie admin - help with mysql

From: gmail.com href="mailto:maurice.e.johnsongmail.com">Maurice E Johnson

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Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 1:34 AM

Subject: Re: [gentoo-admin] Newbie admin - help with mysql

But wouldn't an attempt to install an app dependent on mysql potentially succeed eroniously? What I'm trying to see - and education is always a good thing - is that in order to truely block mysql, you would need something a bit more complex than an entree in /etc/portage/package.provided.

Something in addition? like:

equery --nocolor hasuse mysql|awk '{print ">="$1}' > </etc/portage/package.provided|/etc/portage/package.mask>

to avoid the consequences of basically saying that it's there when it isn't?

I have read the man page, but it doesn't seem to address the consequenses down the road for this condition.