I recently found that in /usr/share/doc there still are the directories belonging to old cups packages that had been installed on my system (and subsequently upgraded by emerge). Seems that when emerging a new version the uninstall procedure does not handle correctly the doc directory Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: just one doc directory is expected to be there Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 19 2004, 11:06:42)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fweb -ftracers" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fweb -ftracers" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups dvd dvdr encode esd f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2imagemagick imlib jp2 jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mbox mikmod motif mozilla mpeg multilib ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre perl png python qt readline samba sdl slang spell sqlite ssl tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales xml2 xmms xpm xprint xrandr xv xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_it" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Known bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48309 ***