<snip> >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/man-pages-1.70/image/ * checking 3063 files for package collisions 1000 files checked ... existing file /usr/share/man/man8/ld-linux.so.8.gz is not owned by this package 2000 files checked ... 3000 files checked ... * spend 8.10928797722 seconds checking for file collisions * This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite * files belonging to other packages (see messages above). * If you have no clue what this is all about report it * as a bug for this package on http://bugs.gentoo.org package sys-apps/man-pages-1.70 NOT merged </snip> <snip> saidar root # qpkg -l ld.so sys-devel/ld.so-1.9.11-r2 * CONTENTS: /etc /lib /lib/ld.so /lib/ld.so.1.9.11 /lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.11 /lib/libdl.so.1.9.11 /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/lddstub /usr/share /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/man/man1/ldd.1.gz /usr/share/man/man8 /usr/share/man/man8/ld.so.8.gz /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/ld.so-1.9.11-r2 /usr/share/doc/ld.so-1.9.11-r2/COPYRIGHT.gz /usr/share/doc/ld.so-1.9.11-r2/README.gz /usr/share/doc/ld.so-1.9.11-r2/README.preload.gz /lib/ld-linux.so.1 -> ld-linux.so.1.9.11 1028831981 /lib/libdl.so.1 -> libdl.so.1.9.11 1028831981 </snip> <snip> saidar root # qpkg -q ld.so sys-devel/ld.so-1.9.11-r2 * DEPENDED ON BY: </snip> After reading bug 9781 and http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9779#c1 I just want to make sure I can unmerge ld.so and my system will be fine nevertheless. Yeah?
unmerge ld.so from your system
Thanks. Is there no mechanism of notifying for unmerging such obsoleted packages?
sadly there is not
