While looking around my Gentoo installation I found start-stop-daemon is in both /sbin (from sys-apps/baselayout) and /usr/sbin (from app-arch/dpkg). I believe this is a recipe for confusion at the very least. Therefore, I suggest removing one, probably from /usr/sbin. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge baselayout dpkg Actual Results: start-stop-daemon in both /sbin and /usr/sbin Expected Results: Should only have one start-stop-daemon to prevent confusion in case they are different. Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.1.3-r1, 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5, 2.4-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi acpi4linux adns alsa amd antlr apache2 apm ared aredmem arts artswrappersuid artworkextra audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 bzlib c++ calendar caps cdb cdda cddb cdf cdparanoia cdr chroot cjk clamav cln crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbase dbx dio directfb divx4linux djbfft dnd doc droproot dv dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode erandom esd ethereal evo examples exif fam fastcgi fbcon fdftk flac flatfile font-server foomaticdb foreign-package foreign-sysvinit fortran freetds ftp gb gcj gcl gd gd-external gdbm gif ginac glep gmp gnome gnomedb gnuplot gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile haskell iconv icq idea idl imagemagick imap imlib inifile innodb insecure-drivers ipv6 jabber jack java javamail jce jdepend jms jpeg jsch junit jython kde kdeenablefinal kdepim kdexdeltas kerberos latex ldap leim lesstif libclamav libg++ libgda libwww lids live log4j ltsp lua lzw-tiff mad maildir mailwrapper matroska mbox mcal mdb memlimit mha mikmod mime ming mmap mmx motif mozdevelop mozilla moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mysql nas native ncurses netboot nls nptl nptlonly oav objc ocaml odbc ofx ogg oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl opens oss pam parse-clocks pcntl pcre pda pdf pdflib pear-db perl pg-hier pg-intdatetime php pic pie plotutils png posix postgres postgresql ppds pwdb python qt quicktime radeon rdesktop readline rhino ruby ruby18 samba sasl sdk sdl session sguil simplexml skey slang slp snmp soap sockets speex spell spl sql sqlite sse ssl subversion svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode usb utf8 vhosts vorbis wddx win32codecs winbind wmf wxwin wxwindows xalan xemacs xerces xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xpm xv xvid xvmc yahoo yv12 zeo zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
removed ssd from dpkg