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On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Planning to 'emerge -pv eix' for the latest 0.17.1 in testing, |
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> I was surprised by |
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> |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild N ] app-arch/xz-utils-4.999.9_beta 1,014 kB |
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> [uninstall ] app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 USE="-nocxx" |
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> [blocks b ] app-arch/lzma-utils ("app-arch/lzma-utils" is blocking app-arch/xz-utils-4.999.9_beta) |
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> [blocks b ] app-arch/xz-utils ("app-arch/xz-utils" is blocking app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7) |
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> [ebuild U ] app-portage/eix-0.17.1 [0.17.0] USE="bzip2%* -deprecated -doc -nls sqlite -tools" 470 kB |
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> I understand the "blocks" lines, but am uneasy about uninstalling Lzma-utils, |
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> which seems to have many important dependencies: |
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xz-utils replaced lzma-utils. According to lzma-utils website |
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(http://tukaani.org/lzma/): |
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"LZMA Utils are legacy data compression software with high compression |
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ratio. LZMA Utils are no longer developed, although critical bugs may |
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be fixed as long as fixing them doesn't require huge changes to the |
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code. |
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Users of LZMA Utils should move to XZ Utils. XZ Utils support the |
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legacy .lzma format used by LZMA Utils, and can also emulate the |
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command line tools of LZMA Utils. This should make transition from |
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LZMA Utils to XZ Utils relatively easy. " |
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