Re: [gentoo-user] unix2dos blocks dos2unix

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 10:24 +0300, Gevisz wrote:
> I have just installed unix2dos utility
> (never had a need to use it before) and
> just after that tried to install dos2unix
> but the installation of dos2unix failed
> complaining on the fact that
>
> "app-text/unix2dos" is blocking app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5
>
> I find it very strange as I think that if someone
> needs unix2dos utility he usually also needs dos2unix
> utility, especially taking into account that unix2dos
> by default overwrites its input file.
>
> This is the output from the emerge command:
>
> # emerge --ask dos2unix
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N     ] app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5  USE="nls -debug"
> [blocks B      ] app-text/unix2dos ("app-text/unix2dos" is blocking
> app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5)
> [blocks B      ] >=app-text/dos2unix-5 (">=app-text/dos2unix-5" is
> blocking app-text/unix2dos-2.2-r1)
>
>  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
>  * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
>   (app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
>   in by dos2unix
>
>   (app-text/unix2dos-2.2-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>     app-text/unix2dos required by @selected
>
>
> For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
> following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is
> irrelevant):
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
>
> Any thought?
>

% eix dos2unix
14-09-14 - 12:56:42
* app-text/dos2unix
     Available versions:  6.0.3 6.0.5 (~)6.0.6 {debug nls}
     Homepage:            http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/dos2unix.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dos2unix/
     Description:         Convert DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format
or ***vice versa***


dos2unix handles both, that's why.

-- 
Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com>