I'm looking at my email inbox after some of the recent activity in revdep-rebuilds (whew!) and standing out among the exhortations is this from MySQL (int part)
WARN: unpack Previous datadir found, it's YOUR job to change ownership and take care of it. There's something off about this. I never have used MySQL in person, though I'm guessing it gets used by some packages. So what am I to make of a message like this? The ownership and permissions look okay to me. And I have no idea what it means to "take care of it". I don't expect myself to be clueful about all the hundreds (thousands?) of packages I have installed. I'd like them to be a bit more helpful, and perhaps careful to state what the problem actually is, or might be. Courteous wouldn't be a bad idea either. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
