Add MySQL packaging changes announcement

The purpose of this news item is to announce to users the USE flag
changes and that a server package should be added to the world file
if one is required locally.  Future dependencies may not pull the
server automatically as it was in the past.
Also includes a suggestion to resolve potential blockers by setting
the new client-libs USE on a server package

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+Title: MySQL packaging changes
+Author: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>
+Content-Type: text/plain
+Posted: 2015-07-28
+Revision: 1
+News-Item-Format: 1.0
+Display-If-Installed: virtual/mysql
+
+The upcoming versions of MySQL packages will see a change with the
+introduction of a new virtual, libmysqlclient and USE flag adjustments.
+
+The existing virtual/mysql will represent the server (mysqld) and
+tools (mysqldump, mysql, mysqladmin, etc) while virtual/libmysqlclient
+will represent the mysql client shared and static libraries, e.g.
+libmysqlclient.so.
+
+Ebuilds that only link the libraries may not pull in the server
+packages with this change in the future. Because of this, you may have
+to add a virtual/mysql or one of the providers; i.e. dev-db/mysql,
+dev-db/mariadb, or dev-db/percona-server; to your world file if you
+require a server to be installed locally.  This will be phased in
+slowly as other packages are updated.
+
+As for the server packages themselves, the "minimal" USE is being
+replaced. The new USE flags are client-libs, server, and tools.
+The server and tools flags are on by default to signify the primary
+purpose of those builds.
+
+The primary provider for libraries will be a new package
+dev-db/mysql-connector-c.  Thorough testing did not turn up any
+issues, but packagers are permitted to block any provider of
+virtual/libmysqlclient that does not work correctly. Enabling the
+client-libs USE on a server package may be the necessary solution for
+the rare case of portage reporting a block on an incompatible provider.
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