Re: [gentoo-user] to USE loop-aes or not to USE loop-aes, that is the confusion

["Ђорђе Тодоровић" <postmanmiler@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

>Hi,
>
>When the story begins I had installed util-linux-2.18-r1.
>Then emerge told me, that it wants to downgrade to util-linux-2.12,
>because I hade set USE=loop-aes for that.
>Util-linux-2.19.something was on the road too...
>After some inverstigation I thought USE=crypt had replced
>USE=loop-aes, I removed USE=loop-aes and emerged util-linux.
>I upgraded loop-aes to 3.6c
>Emerge decided to install util-linux-2.19.something.
>
>Now, I got this:
>emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r[crypt,loop-aes]".
>!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
>- sys-apps/util-linux-2.18-r1 (Change USE: +loop-aes)
>(dependency required by "sys-fs/loop-aes-3.6c" [installed])
>(dependency required by "@selected" [set])
>(dependency required by "@world" [argument])
>
>I totally confused here.
>
>What is the difference of
>USE=loop-aes
>and
>USE=crypt?
>
>Why are the versions oscillate that way?
>
>HELP ! :)
>
>Thank you very much for any hint in advance!:)
>
>Best regards
>mcc
>
See this bug:
   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354451

Also, this guy wrote some blog posts regarding the issue:
   http://dev.c1pher.net/index.php/2011/06/loop-aes-should-it-be-treecleaned/
   http://dev.c1pher.net/index.php/2011/06/loop-aes-update/

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