From emerging dev-util/monotone-0.29: * checking 39 files for package collisions existing file /usr/share/info/monotone.info-1.gz is not owned by this package existing file /usr/share/info/monotone.info-2.gz is not owned by this package existing file /usr/share/info/monotone.info.gz is not owned by this package # equery b /usr/share/info/monotone.info-1.gz [ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/info/monotone.info-1.gz in *... ] dev-util/monotone-0.25 (/usr/share/info/monotone.info-1.gz) monotone is slotted: # emerge -pv monotone These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] dev-util/monotone-0.29 USE="bash-completion -doc -emacs -ipv6 -nls" 0 kB # emerge -C monotone && emerge monotone does work though and nothing I have installed seems to depend on version 25 explicitly.
to fix this would require moving the newer monotone info files around. having two versions installed I wouldn't want the user to see the older monotone info files instead of the newer versions. I'll remove the older monotone builds in the next 6 months.