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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] lzma-utils vs xz-utils
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:35:48
Message-Id: 20090913083544.GB4897@ca.inter.net
1 Planning to 'emerge -pv eix' for the latest 0.17.1 in testing,
2 I was surprised by
3
4 Calculating dependencies... done!
5 [ebuild N ] app-arch/xz-utils-4.999.9_beta 1,014 kB
6 [uninstall ] app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 USE="-nocxx"
7 [blocks b ] app-arch/lzma-utils ("app-arch/lzma-utils" is blocking app-arch/xz-utils-4.999.9_beta)
8 [blocks b ] app-arch/xz-utils ("app-arch/xz-utils" is blocking app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7)
9 [ebuild U ] app-portage/eix-0.17.1 [0.17.0] USE="bzip2%* -deprecated -doc -nls sqlite -tools" 470 kB
10
11 I understand the "blocks" lines, but am uneasy about uninstalling Lzma-utils,
12 which seems to have many important dependencies:
13
14 root:503 ~> equery d lzma-utils
15 [ Searching for packages depending on lzma-utils... ]
16 app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0.0.3g (app-arch/lzma-utils)
17 app-portage/eix-0.17.0 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
18 dev-libs/mpfr-2.4.1_p1 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
19 media-libs/libpng-1.2.38 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
20 media-libs/netpbm-10.46.00 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
21 net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r9 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
22 sys-apps/coreutils-7.4 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
23 sys-apps/man-1.6f-r3 (lzma? app-arch/lzma-utils)
24 sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
25 sys-apps/sandbox-2.0 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
26 sys-apps/texinfo-4.13 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
27 sys-devel/m4-1.4.12 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
28 sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
29 sys-libs/gpm-1.20.5 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
30
31 Can anyone explain what's going on ?
32
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] lzma-utils vs xz-utils Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] lzma-utils vs xz-utils Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>