Gentoo upgrade

puntjuh · 02-01-2008, 08:36 PM

Hi,

I've done my weekly emerge --sync & emerge -uavND world.

Now i get the following:

[blocks B ] media-libs/libdts (is blocking media-libs/libdca-0.0.5)

as you can see, libdts is allready installed:

Code:

Searching...
[ Results for search key : libdts ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  media-libs/libdts [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 0.0.2-r5
      Latest version installed: 0.0.2-r5
      Size of files: 288 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html
      Description:   library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams used in DVD
      License:       GPL-2

And it wants me to install:

Code:

Searching...
[ Results for search key : libdca ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  media-libs/libdca
      Latest version available: 0.0.5
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 384 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html
      Description:   library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams used in DVD
      License:       GPL-2

My question beeing, what is the main difference between these to packages? They both give you access to DTS sound!

The only reason, and probably the best reason for sticking with libdts is that libdca is still in development stage.

What are your opinions on this? Should i just ignore the block ?Upgrade the rest and ignore this? Or should i change packets?

Thanks!

syg00 · 02-01-2008, 09:21 PM

If the (Gentoo) devs decide to go with a replacement upstream package, I usually go along. Unless I have something masked for a reason.
You can get into an unholy mess retaining blocking packages - especially if they are no longer being worked on. I've generally found that masking eventually comes back to bite me.
Unmerge the offender.

puntjuh · 02-02-2008, 06:57 AM

i'll go for the new package, and delete the old one, if i notice problems with DTS, there's allways the good old switching back!

As for the links with the packages, it'd seem that libdts no longer exists on the page of VLC, you get linked to libdca immediately.

Thanks for your advice!