Reproduceable: always I believe the USE flag -gnome is required to generate this specific error. 1. dia -> Help menu -> Contents 2. Could not open help directory: Error opening directory '/usr/share/dia/help': No such file or directory A quick "equery files dia" shows that the help files are actually in: /usr/share/help/dia/<language> I believe a piece of the confusion lies in xmldocs.make: # ********** Begin of section some packagers may need to modify ********** # This variable (docdir) specifies where the documents should be installed. # This default value should work for most packages. if HAVE_GNOME docdir = $(datadir)/gnome/help/$(docname)/$(lang) else docdir = $(datadir)/help/$(docname)/$(lang) endif The docdir variable looks to be how the orphaned directory was created - if datadir is set to /usr/share, and docname is set to dia.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135817 ***
