It seems that app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 is installed in /usr and not in /opt. My understanding was that binary-only programs should be installed in /opt and not in /usr. If this has changed, my apologies for wasting your time with this 'bug' (Although I couldn't find any information on the site that goes against this on a casual glance.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge openoffice-bin Actual Results: app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 is installed in /usr (mainly /usr/lib/openoffice) Expected Results: It should presumably have been installed somewhere in /opt. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/ciaran/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdb cdr crypt cups curl dga dvd eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac fluidsynth foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm geoip gif glut gmail gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jbig joystick jpeg kde kdeenablefinal ladspa lcms libg++ libwww lua mad mhash mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg multitarget ncurses nls nodrm nptl ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png povray ppds python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slang sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l vorbis wmf xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
You are basically right, the problem is, we have to have openoffice and openoffice-bin in the same place, otherwise the user install (and some applications depending on OOo) would break when changing between them. So the current solution might not be perfect, but still the best there is atm.