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Bug 8685

Summary: Symlinks broken by portage on re-emerge
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Brad Cowan (RETIRED) <bcowan>
Component: UnclassifiedAssignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: critical CC: seemant
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Brad Cowan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-10-03 07:05:53 UTC
<seemant> basically, if you emerge something that has symlinks, and then remerge
it -- on clean up the symlinks get hosed