Pandu Poluan asks:

> How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?

The list of files belonging to a package can be found in
/var/db/pkg/<category>/<package>-<version>/CONTENTS.

> I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, and
> I want to know how to tell emerge what new files has been added (if
> necessary)

That's not necessary, the CONTENTS file is being generated automatically 
from the contents in /var/tmp/portage/<category>/<package>-<version>/image 
directory. That's where packages are being installed into, and then portage 
copies them into the live file system.

        Wonko

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