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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Package blocks
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 22:53:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005022253.17912.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BDDE191.6060605@gmail.com>

On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, CJoeB wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First, I've looked on the archives, but didn't find anything that really
> helped.
> 
> The situation is that I need to install xz-utils but it is being blocked
> by lzma-utils.
> 
> One suggestion from the archives was to install an updated package of
> eix and another one, but neither of these are installed on my system.
> 
> Another post stated that the person was uncomfortable removing
> lzma-utils because of the packages that depend on it.  I feel the same
> way because among others, core-utils and linux-headers depend on
> lzma-utils, which has apparently been deprecated in favour of xz-utils.
> 
> Has anyone solved this issue and if so, can you tell me what you did?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Colleen

unmerge lzma-utils, emerge xg-utils. Yeah, it is really that easy.



      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-02 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-02 20:33 [gentoo-user] Package blocks CJoeB
2010-05-02 20:53 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]

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