On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:15:20 +0000 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks RobbieAB. Actually, it showed that the file was owned by the > installed package: > > # portageq owners / /usr/share/fonts/terminus/encodings.dir > media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28 > /usr/share/fonts/terminus/encodings.dir That shows that portage is only aware of one package owning the file (as it should be). However, if media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28 is not installed, it cannot be the package owning the file, and the line I marked shows that portage was not aware of ANY installed packages claiming the file. Hence the problem: Portage was installing a package which wanted to install that file, but was not prepared to overwrite a pre-existing file. > Either way, I removed the file and reinstalled > media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28. Which in the event of an orphaned file is the only sane thing to do. RobbieAB.
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