When I emerged mew-4.1 then .emacs.mew and .mew was copied to /etc/skel (with etc-update). But it is not suitable , i think. Other app-emacs ebuild does not copy its dot-files to /etc/skel. /usr/share/mew is better to install mew's dot-file(mew.dot.mew, mew.dot.emacs). Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Thanks for the bug report. Fixed in CVS.