Re: [gentoo-user] lzma-utils vs xz-utils

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman 
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
 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:

xz-utils replaced lzma-utils. According to lzma-utils website
(http://tukaani.org/lzma/):

LZMA Utils are legacy data compression software with high compression
ratio. LZMA Utils are no longer developed, although critical bugs may
be fixed as long as fixing them doesn't require huge changes to the
code.

Users of LZMA Utils should move to XZ Utils. XZ Utils support the
legacy .lzma format used by LZMA Utils, and can also emulate the
command line tools of LZMA Utils. This should make transition from
LZMA Utils to XZ Utils relatively easy.

[gentoo-user] lzma-utils vs xz-utils

2009-09-13 Thread Philip Webb 
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 ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] lzma-utils vs xz-utils

2009-09-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs 
Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 10:35:44 schrieb Philip Webb:
 I understand the blocks lines, but am uneasy about uninstalling
  Lzma-utils, which seems to have many important dependencies:

Just do it. xz-utils is a drop in replacement.

Bye...

Dirk