This will ease with transition as the USE flag is obsolete
on some providers.
# This file is only for generic masks. For arch-specific masks (i.e.
# mask everywhere, unmask on arch/*) use arch/base.
+# Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> (5 Mar 2018)
+# Mask embedded USE on virtual/mysql to transition it to be obsolete
+>=virtual/mysql-5.6-r11 embedded
+
# Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> (28 Feb 2018)
# Mask client-libs USE to force users to install alternative standard pacakges
>=dev-db/mariadb-10.3 client-libs