on my PCs, /mnt is an autofs basedir, so all autofs mounts are under /mnt. The problem is, that /mnt itself is readonly then. 'baselayout' wants to write '.keep' into /mnt and throws an error. Now I could change my autofs configuration to a different basedir, but that's really odd. I want autofs to use /mnt like I always did since years. And stopping autofs during the emerge isn't an option, because my distfiles are on one of the mount points. :-/ same problem with /home. IMHO is .keep not really needed for /mnt and /home, since no package will ever install files into these directories. And so, an "emerge -C" will never remove these directories. btw: you could modify emerge to use a blacklist for special directories (configurable in /etc/conf.d). This way, the filesystem isn't crowded by .keep files in major system directories. Other directories can be protected with .keep files. But not /etc /home /mnt /dev /sys /proc and such. please remove .keep from 'baselayout'. Thanks! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure autofs to use /mnt 2. try "emerge baselayout" 3. it will break while merging Actual Results: baselayout can't be emerged when /mnt is an autofs dir. Expected Results: baselayout can be emerged w/o problems.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9849 ***
