On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 12:18 +0200, Andrea Conti wrote: > AFAIK in order to avoid this kind of > breakage system ebuilds such as mpfr never delete old library > versions; > they just print a warning saying that the old library has been kept > around and should be manually deleted after running revdep-rebuild. > > On all my sytems the transition to dev-libs/mpfr-3 was handled this > way
Perhaps the OP performed the latter step before performing the former?