> Let's say you've got a file, 'foo' that contains
> ----CUT----
> chown root.root foo
> ----CUT----
> 
> # echo "`cat foo | cut -d "." -f1`:`cat foo | cut -d "." -f2`"
> 
> seems to work on the simple case.
> 
> I'm sure someone can come up with a regex to match the dotted-chown.

this is easily fixed using a simple sed, however when it comes down to
the actual ebuilds, this isnt a possibility.
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