base/package.use.mask: Mask client-libs USE on mysql/mariadb

We want to force users into *not* installing the client libraries
from the server packages and instead use the C connectors.

This is a transition mask while it is tested, vetted and
package dependencies changed

diff --git a/profiles/base/package.use.mask b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
index c498bf2cbd900c7ccffc8d49199a932125b60ce1..36673af7049a12688c6a1d5f38156d778e63bfcb 100644 (file)
--- a/profiles/base/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 # 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> (28 Feb 2018)
+# Mask client-libs USE to force users to install alternative standard pacakges
+dev-db/mariadb client-libs
+dev-db/mysql client-libs
+dev-db/percona-server client-libs
+
 # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (25 Feb 2018)
 # Depends on obsolete media-libs/phonon[qt4]
 dev-qt/designer:4 phonon