From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmkYm-0008SN-IB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:35:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 791D8E0663; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay2g.uniserve.ca [216.113.194.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494C7E0663 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-68.63.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.63.68] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MmkYj-0000YC-L5 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:35:46 -0700 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:35:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:35:44 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: Gentoo User Subject: [gentoo-user] lzma-utils vs xz-utils Message-ID: <20090913083544.GB4897@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: Gentoo User Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: 0db1e0eb-3fcc-4bea-9b89-e7209e462233 X-Archives-Hash: cd159db4424964d88420f30c523f9ce4 Planning to 'emerge -pv eix' for the latest 0.17.1 in testing, I was surprised by Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-arch/xz-utils-4.999.9_beta 1,014 kB [uninstall ] app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 USE="-nocxx" [blocks b ] app-arch/lzma-utils ("app-arch/lzma-utils" is blocking app-arch/xz-utils-4.999.9_beta) [blocks b ] app-arch/xz-utils ("app-arch/xz-utils" is blocking app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7) [ebuild U ] app-portage/eix-0.17.1 [0.17.0] USE="bzip2%* -deprecated -doc -nls sqlite -tools" 470 kB I understand the "blocks" lines, but am uneasy about uninstalling Lzma-utils, which seems to have many important dependencies: root:503 ~> equery d lzma-utils [ Searching for packages depending on lzma-utils... ] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0.0.3g (app-arch/lzma-utils) app-portage/eix-0.17.0 (app-arch/lzma-utils) dev-libs/mpfr-2.4.1_p1 (app-arch/lzma-utils) media-libs/libpng-1.2.38 (app-arch/lzma-utils) media-libs/netpbm-10.46.00 (app-arch/lzma-utils) net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r9 (app-arch/lzma-utils) sys-apps/coreutils-7.4 (app-arch/lzma-utils) sys-apps/man-1.6f-r3 (lzma? app-arch/lzma-utils) sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1 (app-arch/lzma-utils) sys-apps/sandbox-2.0 (app-arch/lzma-utils) sys-apps/texinfo-4.13 (app-arch/lzma-utils) sys-devel/m4-1.4.12 (app-arch/lzma-utils) sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2 (app-arch/lzma-utils) sys-libs/gpm-1.20.5 (app-arch/lzma-utils) Can anyone explain what's going on ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca