Don't know if this is a reason for filling a bug report... When merging dev-lang/python-2.6.4-r1 without the "tk" useflag set the symlink /usr/bin/idle -> idle2.6 consists but idle2.6 doesn't exist. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="-tk" emerge -v1 python 2. /usr/bin/chkdupexe Actual Results: The symlink /usr/bin/idle -> idle2.6 is set. Expected Results: No symlink /usr/bin/idle -> idle2.6 should be set cause idle2.6 doesn't exists with this configuration. Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.33-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-i686-AMD_Athlon-TM-_XP_2500+-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:45:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0_beta1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://mirrors.linuxant.fr/distfiles.gentoo.org/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/distfiles/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/porttmp" PORTDIR="/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/overlay/layman/swegener /usr/overlay/local-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acl acpi alsa arts bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups custom-optimization cxx dbus dri flac fortran gdbm glib gnutls gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 jpeg kde mmx mmxext modules mp3 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pch pcre perl phonon png pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spl sql sqlite3 sse ssl svg sysfs tcpd threads unicode usb vorbis x86 xcomposite xorg xulrunner zlib" ALSA_CARDS="c0106 via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa nouveau" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS * dev-lang/python Available versions: (2.4) 2.4.6 (2.5) 2.5.4-r4 (2.6) 2.6.4 2.6.4-r1{tbz2} (3.1) ~3.1.1-r1 {-berkdb bootstrap build +cxx doc elibc_uclibc examples gdbm ipv6 +ncurses +readline sqlite (+)ssl +threads tk +wide-unicode wininst +xml} Installed versions: Version: 2.6.4-r1(2.6){tbz2} Date: 15:19:38 03.03.2010 USE: berkdb gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads wide-unicode xml -build -doc -elibc_uclibc -examples -tk -wininst
Wel, idle is a tk app, so it didn't work while 'tk' useflag was unset, so (eventually) ebuild was modified to not install it.
It was fixed some time ago.
