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> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Mike Ballard <dont_w@nt_spam.org>
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:16:48 GMT
> 
> I use gentoo.  For some (to me, inexplicable) reason the gentoo folks have
> decided to have emerge (the tool for installing new sources) search for
> "dir" files and in some cases rename them to dir.old.

Well, if you rename `dir' into `dir.info', will emerge leave it alone?
If it will, you have your solution, I think.