On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> >> >> OK, here I saw the same file list but the emerge didn't fail. The >> installation told me it was overwriting the files because no one >> claimed to own them. >> >> That's some sort of ebuild problem and I'd agree that a bug should be filed. > > That behavior can be controlled by your FEATURES settings > (collision-protect or protect-owned) and optionally modified further > in make.conf by COLLISION_IGNORE. >
Good to know. I guess the default setting must be to overwrite as I've not made any of those setting changes. - Mark
