On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:00:20PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Friday 23 December 2005 21:39, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:31:06PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > On Friday 23 December 2005 20:19, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> > > > Well, you should know that those are because of portage bugs or some
> > > > portage peculiarity, read the corresponding bugs for example for cups
> > > > to find out more.
> > >
> > > Can you point me to a bug? There's no mention in the ChangeLog that I can
> > > see nor in the ebuilds themselves...
> >
> > Bug #99375 is mentioned in the changelog for samba.
> 
> Okay. It appears to be something related to symlinks. Can you show me the bug 
> assigned to portage that reports this and/or shows how to reproduce it?

Don't know if it's been reported as a portage bug, but this would show
it:

KEYWORDS="~x86"
src_install() {
        dodir /test
        dosym /usr/bin /test
}

When unmerging, portage won't remove /test/bin because its target still exists.

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