After doing emerge --world update I notice this (look at duplicates): ------- root@gamma sys-apps # ls baselayout-1.6.7-r1 groff-1.17.2 portage-1.7.7 baselayout-1.6.9 groff-1.17.2-r1 portage-1.8.5 bash-2.04-r4 grub-0.90-r3 procps-2.0.6-r2 bash-2.05a-r1 grub-0.90-r4 procps-2.0.7-r6 bzip2-1.0.1-r4 gzip-1.3.2 psmisc-19-r3 console-data-1999.08.29-r2 hdparm-3.9-r4 raidtools-0.90-r2 console-tools-0.2.3-r4 hdparm-4.6 reiserfs-utils-3.6.25-r7 cpio-2.4.2-r4 iproute2-2.4.7 sed-3.02.80-r3 dcron-2.7-r6 iptables-1.2.4 setserial-2.17-r2 dcron-2.7-r7 iptables-1.2.4-r1 sh-utils-2.0.11 debianutils-1.13.3-r4 isapnptools-1.23-r6 sh-utils-2.0.11-r1 devfsd-1.3.20 isapnptools-1.26 shadow-20001016-r6 diffutils-2.7.5 less-358-r3 sharutils-4.2.1-r4 diffutils-2.7.5-r1 less-371-r1 sysvinit-2.83 e2fsprogs-1.25-r3 lilo-22.1 tar-1.13.25 ed-0.2-r3 lilo-22.1-r1 tar-1.13.25-r1 fbset-2.1 lsof-4.57 tcp-wrappers-7.6-r2 file-3.37 lsof-4.60-r1 tcp-wrappers-7.6-r3 fileutils-4.1.4 man-1.5i-r1 texinfo fileutils-4.1.4-r1 man-pages-1.43-r1 textutils-2.0.19 findutils-4.1.7 modutils-2.4.12 util-linux-2.11l gawk-3.1.0 net-tools-1.60-r1 which-2.13 grep-2.4.2-r5 netkit-base-0.17-r4 root@gamma sys-apps # pwd /var/db/pkg/sys-apps --------- What's strange is that I don't remember installing lilo, ever. I've always used grub. But I guess it's installed together with grub by default?
We will add this support to Portage soon, in a couple of weeks.