On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:30:32 -0400,
Michael Orlitzky wrote:

On 4/22/20 1:19 PM, John Covici wrote:

That makes no sense to me -- portage itself says those files are owned
by 14.7.1965(14) so if its telling me that why does it not just
replace those files?

Aha, you're not doing anything wrong. The old 14.7.x version was slotted:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/diff/net-misc/teamviewer/teamviewer-14.7.1965.ebuild?id=2766d49e7c040d373685775a4515967cd0f1b33e

The new ones aren't (they're all SLOT=0). But the new ones install to
the same place as the old 14.7.x versions. Since slotted packages aren't
supposed to conflict, it's complaining that SLOT=0 and SLOT=14.7 (or
whatever it was) are trying to install to the same place.

I guess the developer never noticed the problem because he was on a
faster upgrade schedule. You can fix it by uninstalling the old version
manually, and then installing the new one.

OK, manually unmerging and re-emerging did the trick -- thanks all for
your help.