For example, skype-2.2.0.35-r99 installs a /usr/share/skype -> /opt/skype symlink, and skype-4.0.0.7-r1 installs /usr/share/skype as a directory. If skype-4.0.0.7-r1 gets installed on top of the symlink, we want that orphan symlink to be unmerged if skype is unmerged.
This is fixed in git: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=0c29f1531fe9787cd1bd96fcd5c34ec5e6128aa4
This is fixed in 2.1.11 and 2.2.0_alpha111.
Since /lib is a symlink to /lib64 on my amd64 system, I'm getting a message like this when I rebuild my kernel modules: * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible: * * /lib * I guess we can just whitelist /lib and /usr/lib here.
(In reply to comment #3) > I guess we can just whitelist /lib and /usr/lib here. Sounds good.