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On 4/22/20 11:58 AM, John Covici wrote:
> 
> Yes, portage agrees with that statement, maybe I didn't give you the
> whole log, I thought it said that in there -- I did see that, I am
> sure.  My question is how does this work normally, when you merge a
> package and update is this not always the case that there are files
> owned by the previous version on the system?
> 

Yeah, but the package manager knows which files are owned by the version
being replaced and it doesn't complain about those.