On Thu, May 26 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: > Allan Gottlieb writes: > >> 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? > > Yes. If you think these files might be important, then you could back them > up first. Apparently they belong to the icu stuff you are going to remerge > anyway, so deleting should be safe I think. But it's strange that those > files do not belong to any package. > > Instead of removing them it would be easier to set FEATURES to -collision- > protect. And with FEATURES=keepwork you will not have to recompile icu. So, > I would do this: > > FEATURES="-collision-protect keepwork" emerge -1a dev-libs/icu > > Remember that you have to delete stuff in /var/tmp/portage/dev- > libs/icu-4.6.1 manually afterwards.
thank you for the advice, which worked fine. allan
