[gentoo-portage-dev] Is portage (/usr)/bin-merge safe?

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

As in subject, is portage bin/usr-bin merge safe?

It appears most of my clashing files are /usr/bin/* -> /bin/* symlinks.  
(That's just bin, I've not looked at sbin.)

Does portage "just do the right thing" if the dirs are linked to each 
other?

Meanwhile, a quick eyeball of the results says 50-60% of the hits are 
coreutils, so if portage doesn't handle it automatically, fixing it for 
just that one package, even just using a USE flag instead of trying to 
detect it automatically, would kill a majority of the birds with a single 
stone.

(Since I don't have a separate /usr anyway, I've been thinking about 
it...  If it's not easily doable anyway, that cuts short the internal 
debate.)

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