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> Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this
> automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if
> not just
>
> emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow
>
> then emerge -avuND world.
>
> No good technical reason for doing shadow first apart from getting it over and
> done with while you watch and confirm it works fine. Then do world and wander
> over to the kettle letting portage go on with doing it's thing unattended

For my own comfort, on a case like this, if I didn't have the portage
FEATURE buildpkg or buildsyspkg turned on, I'd make sure that was on
and that I had a functional backup of shadow to install from binary,
in case something went very wrong.  But I tend to be extremely
cautious in terms of how I maintain my system, and a lot of that
caution is just paranoia.

~daid