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-rw-r--r--pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
index 786687079..34098eab1 100644
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
@@ -2370,7 +2370,11 @@ class dblink(object):
if protected_symlinks:
msg = "One or more symlinks to directories have been " + \
"preserved in order to ensure that files installed " + \
- "via these symlinks remain accessible:"
+ "via these symlinks remain accessible. " + \
+ "This indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may " + \
+ "be obsolete remnants of an old install, and it " + \
+ "may be appropriate to replace a given symlink " + \
+ "with the directory that it points to."
lines = textwrap.wrap(msg, 72)
lines.append("")
flat_list = set()