I try to emerge glib-2.4.6 on my MacOS X 10.3.5 system and it dies, refusing to overwrite an already existing /usr/lib/charset.alias I cant speak for anyone else, but on my system, /usr/lib/charset.alias contains only the following: # This file contains a table of character encoding aliases, # suitable for operating system 'darwin7.0'. # It was automatically generated from config.charset. # Packages using this file: I don't see why there would be a problem in letting glib's install clobber this file. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="macos" emerge glib Actual Results: glib install dies because it doesn't want to overwrite /usr/lib/charset.alias * checking 280 files for package collisions existing file /usr/lib/charset.alias is not owned by this package * spend 0.237250089645 seconds checking for file collisions * This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite * files belonging to other packages (see messages above). Expected Results: glib should have installed Portage 20040726 (default-macos-10.3, gcc-3.3, unavailable, 7.5.0 Power Macintosh powerpc) ================================================================= System uname: 7.5.0 Power Macintosh powerpc macos-20040726 distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: Automake: Binutils: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-protect cvs keepwork" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="macos"
See also bug 59283: this problem has existed since at least glib-2.4.4.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59283 ***
Closing out bugs that've been resolved for a while now...