emerge complains that icu (details below) will overwrite files that MAY belong to other packages. But in fact none do. The suggestion is to ignore the collisions. Does that mean I should simply rm the files before retrying the emerge?
thanks, allan * Messages for package dev-libs/icu-4.6.1: * Package: dev-libs/icu-4.6.1 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: arfre...@gentoo.org * USE: amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib userland_GNU * FEATURES: sandbox * Applying icu-4.6.1-parallel_installation.patch ... * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other * packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq * owners / <filename>` to identify the installed package that owns a * file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do * NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at * least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s). * If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from * then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough * information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file * a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which * two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file * a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message. * * package dev-libs/icu-4.6.1 NOT merged * * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib64/libicutu.so.46.1 * /usr/lib64/libicuio.so.46.1 * /usr/lib64/libiculx.so.46.1 * /usr/lib64/libicutest.so.46.1 * /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.46.1 * /usr/lib64/libicui18n.so.46.1 * /usr/lib64/libicuuc.so.46.1 * /usr/lib64/libicule.so.46.1 * /usr/lib64/icu/4.6.1/Makefile.inc * /usr/lib64/icu/4.6.1/pkgdata.inc * /usr/share/doc/icu-4.6.1/unicode-license.txt.bz2 * /usr/share/doc/icu-4.6.1/html/readme.html * /usr/share/icu/4.6.1/install-sh * /usr/share/icu/4.6.1/license.html * /usr/share/icu/4.6.1/mkinstalldirs * /usr/share/icu/4.6.1/config/mh-linux * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * None of the installed packages claim the file(s). * * Package 'dev-libs/icu-4.6.1' NOT merged due to file collisions. If * necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. *
