Due to the change from simple copying the files but using doins the permissions of the scripts of the emerge-world theme are not preserved. They need to be executable else there are a lot of permission denied messages at boot/shutdown in verbose mode.
+*splash-themes-gentoo-20101212-r2 (13 Oct 2013) + + 13 Oct 2013; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> + +splash-themes-gentoo-20101212-r2.ebuild: + Fix permissions, bug #470100 +