The ebuild media-sound/emu10k1 doesn't install any documentation and installs the manpages in the wrong folder (/usr/man/ and not /usr/share/man) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: To install the documentation: 1. mkdir /tmp/emu 2. cd /tmp/emu 3. cp /usr/portage/distfiles/emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2 . 4. tar xjf emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2 5. cd emu10k1-v0.20a/docs/ 6. gzip * 7. cd .. 8. cp -R docs /usr/share/doc/emu10k1-v0.20a 9. cd / 10. rm -Rf /tmp/emu To fix man-problem: Edit /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile: export MANPATH="$MANPATH:/usr/man" or gzip /usr/man/man1/{as10k1.1,emu-config.1,emu-dspmgr.1} mv /usr/man/man1/{as10k1.1.gz,emu-config.1.gz,emu-dspmgr.1.gz} /usr/share/man1/ rm -R Portage 2.0.46-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/gentoo/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml 2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib bonobo svga ggi tcltk java guile mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww s sl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla ldap snmp cdr scanner dvd" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="no" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
/usr/man is a symlink to /usr/share/man ... in other words, you dont need to modify your path at any rate, a new version has been added to portage (0.20a-r2)
hmm, meant to close bug