Disclaimer: this bug has been filed in a semi-automated manner. When emerging the package media-gfx/grub-splashes-20091109, the following elog messages are displayed: * Please note that this ebuild makes the assumption that you're * using /boot/grub/ for your grub configuration. * * To use your new grub splashes edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf * You can see available splash screens by running * gentoo-blue.xpm.gz gentoo.xpm.gz green_splash.xpm.gz gun_splash.xpm.gz leaf_splash.xpm.gz note_splash.xpm.gz play_gentoo.xpm.gz splash.xpm.gz sword_splash.xpm.gz sword_splash2.xpm.gz urban_splash.xpm.gz Such messages should only be displayed when the package is a new install. These situations can be checked in the ebuild as follows: if ! has_version 'media-gfx/grub-splashes'; then See the tracker bug 440214 for more details.