--- portage/pym/portage.py	2005-11-11 16:00:06.000000000 +0200
+++ portage.az/pym/portage.py	2005-11-11 16:03:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -6430,6 +6430,9 @@
 				writemsg("!!! FAILED postrm: "+str(a)+"\n")
 				sys.exit(123)
 
+		#update environment settings, library paths. Change symlinks.
+		env_update(makelinks=1)
+		
 		self.unlockdb()
 
 	def isowner(self,filename,destroot):
@@ -6672,13 +6675,10 @@
 			writemsg("!!! FAILED postinst: "+str(a)+"\n")
 			sys.exit(123)
 
-		downgrade = False
-		for v in otherversions:
-			if pkgcmp(catpkgsplit(self.pkg)[1:], catpkgsplit(v)[1:]) < 0:
-				downgrade = True
-
 		#update environment settings, library paths. DO NOT change symlinks.
-		env_update(makelinks=(not downgrade))
+		#only needed if we did not already run unmerge
+		if not (oldcontents):
+			env_update(makelinks=0)
 		#dircache may break autoclean because it remembers the -MERGING-pkg file
 		global dircache
 		if dircache.has_key(self.dbcatdir):