Currently, there is lzma-utils and xz-utils in portage, both unmasked. However, if I have xz-utils installed, a ton of packages want me to switch to lzma-utils, even though xz-utils provides everything necessary for dealing with .lzma files. Here's what I get: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('installed', '/', 'app-arch/xz-utils-4.999.8_beta', 'nomerge') pulled in by app-arch/xz-utils required by @world ('ebuild', '/', 'app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7', 'merge') pulled in by app-arch/lzma-utils required by ('installed', '/', 'dev-texlive/texlive-publishers-2008', 'nomerge') app-arch/lzma-utils required by ('installed', '/', 'dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2008-r1', 'nomerge') app-arch/lzma-utils required by ('installed', '/', 'sys-apps/coreutils-7.4', 'nomerge') (and 37 more) What's worse, I installed KDE from kde-testing overlay while I had xz-utils, and now it would not start unless xz-utils is installed (had something to do with liblzma.so, if I remember correctly) - so I can't even easily switch. So the solution would be to provide a virtual for lzma so that packages that want to decompress lzma could accept either one. Reproducible: Always
I'd say xz-utils need a bigger upstream. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 258874 ***
