diff -Naur eix-0.2.2.orig/ChangeLog eix-0.2.2/ChangeLog
--- eix-0.2.2.orig/ChangeLog	2005-04-06 17:43:28.000000000 +0200
+++ eix-0.2.2/ChangeLog	2005-04-06 17:43:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 	- User root no longer needed to update database
 	- Moved some functionality into seperate toolkits.
 	- Added ~-operator to class Mask
+	- Fixed http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88148
 
 *eix-0.2.1 (2005/02/24)
 
diff -Naur eix-0.2.2.orig/src/cascadingprofile.cc eix-0.2.2/src/cascadingprofile.cc
--- eix-0.2.2.orig/src/cascadingprofile.cc	2005-04-06 17:43:28.000000000 +0200
+++ eix-0.2.2/src/cascadingprofile.cc	2005-04-06 17:43:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@
 /** Exclude this files from listing of files in profile. */
 static const char *profile_exclude[] = { "parent", "..", "." , NULL };
 
+/** Key that should accumelate their content rathern then replace. */
+static const char *accumulating_keys[4] = {
+	"USE",
+	"CONFIG_*",
+	"FEATURES",
+	NULL
+};
+
+
 CascadingProfile::~CascadingProfile()
 {
 	for(unsigned int i = 0; i<system.size(); ++i)
@@ -133,8 +142,10 @@
 		for(unsigned int i = 0; i<profile_files.size(); i++)
 			if( strcmp(strrchr(profile_files[i].c_str(), '/'), "/make.defaults") == 0)
 			{
-				VarsReader parser(profile_files[i].c_str(), FSM_ALLOW_VAR_REFERENCES);
-				mapAppendStrings(&this->make_defaults, parser.begin(), parser.end());
+				VarsReader parser(profile_files[i].c_str(), FSM_ALLOW_VAR_REFERENCES|FSM_USE_SUPPLIED_MAP|FSM_APPEND_VALUES);
+				parser.useMap(&make_defaults);
+				parser.accumulatingKeys(accumulating_keys);
+				parser.parse();
 			}
 		this->arch = make_defaults["ARCH"].c_str();
 	}