Hi, there has been a change to the ebuild recently: *python-2.4.3-r2 (26 Aug 2006) 26 Aug 2006; Alastair Tse <liquidx@gentoo.org> +python-2.4.3-r2.ebuild: cleanup 2.4.3 ebuild, fix collisions with slotted versions of pydoc and idle*python-2.4.3-r2 (26 Aug 2006) The code seems to be in pkg_postrm(). This change may be useful, but it's ugly as well, because the symlinks don't get recorded to /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r4/CONTENTS. I almost removed them thinking they were cruft. Maybe this can be done another way? Thanks Sebastian Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18.1 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /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/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/data/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/data/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X crypt cups dri elibc_glibc gif gnutls input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux linguas_de lirc_devices_serial logrotate mmx mmxext ncurses nls nptl pch png qt3 readline sse ssl udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_radeon zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Suggest another way.