/usr/sbin/rmt (remote magnetic tape module) and the symlink /etc/rmt are provided by at least these packages: app-arch/tar app-arch/star app-arch/dump Whichever of those gets emerged last installs its version of the binary and man page. Out of those, app-arch/tar does not provide a man page which can lead to inconsistencies when the installed man page does not fit the actual binary. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge tar (should be intalled already ;) ) 2. ls -l /usr/sbin/rmt [note creation date] 3. emerge either dump or star 4. ls -l /usr/sbin/rmt [creation time has changed] OR 1. emerge any two or more 2. etcat -b /usr/sbin/rmt I doubt an emerge info or stack trace would do anything for you but here I give the specific versions on my system at the time of this report: app-arch/tar-1.14.90-r1 app-arch/star-1.5_alpha46 app-arch/dump-0.4.37 I also doubt rmt is used much nowadays so I'm marking this minor. Howeve I believe making these programs block each other would be a bad idea, there are good reasons to have all three of them installed.
dump-0.4.37 now installs as 'dump-rmt' as for star, see Bug 33119
