Mick writes:
> On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:06:14 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> On Thu, May 26 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I could swear I saw the same/similar message about collisions, but in my case
> the package emerged and the files were overwritten. Not sure if I have some
> FEATURES setting that took care of this.
You probably do not have FEATURES="collision-protect" in make.conf, it
is not activated by default.
The similar FEATURE protect-owned is set by default, but this only
refuses to overwrite files belonging to another package.
Wonko
