protected_symlinks: suggest course of action

See discussion in bug #423127.

diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
index 786687079efaa070b0a7085bcc8371c7d49b8a73..34098eab197ff975f69abde1797947405181d533 100644 (file)
--- 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()