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what this is all about report it * as a bug for this package on http://bugs.gentoo.org package sys-apps/portage-2.0.51_rc6 NOT merged bordeaux:/usr/lib/portage/pym root# ls -la xpak* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10021 26 Jul 12:27 xpak.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 14422 27 Sep 11:24 xpak.pyo all the files are root,wheel.
Portage does not know that it is already installed and that it owns the files it wants to overwrite. It should be safe to disable collision protection for this package. The next version of the installer should fix this problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59813 ***
Closing out bugs that've been resolved for a while now...
