--- shared-mime-info-0.60.ebuild.orig	2009-03-09 08:22:50.000000000 +0100
+++ shared-mime-info-0.60.ebuild	2009-03-09 08:25:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -47,8 +47,11 @@
 	elog
 	elog "The database format has changed between 0.30 and 0.40."
 	elog "You may need to update all your local databases and caches."
-	elog "To do so, please run the following commands:"
+	elog "To do so, please run the following command(s):"
 	elog "(for each user) $ update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime/"
+	[[ -d ${ROOT}/usr/local/share/mime ]] && \
 	elog "(as root)       # update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime/"
+	elog "If one of the directories given on the above command line(s)"
+	elog "does not exist, then no action is required."
 	elog
 }