sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r2 produces the following installation message: * If you still have the file /etc/hotplug/isapnp.rc on your system, * please delete it by hand, the file /etc/hotplug/pnp.rc superseeds it. However, this file is actually installed by hotplug: # equery belongs /etc/hotplug/isapnp.rc [ Searching for file(s) /etc/hotplug/isapnp.rc in *... ] sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r2 (/etc/hotplug/isapnp.rc) Deleting the file, then re-emerging hotplug causes it to be recreated. If the message is correct, hotplug shouldn't create this file; if it isn't correct, the message should be removed or amended.
Heh, good catch. The file now contains nothing, but we don't realize it...
sys-apps/hotplug is useless with any recent udev version, and 2.4 kernels are no longer supported. Unmerge it and move on. WONTFIX.