[gentoo-user] Package blocks

[gentoo-user] Package blocks

[CJoeB]

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

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Re: [gentoo-user] Package blocks

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

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.