When using ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/ati-drivers-8.23.7.ebuild unpack I got the following output: * Unpacking Ati drivers ... [ ok ] ACCESS DENIED unlink: /usr/X11R6/bin/fgl_glxgears rm: cannot lstat `/usr/X11R6/bin/fgl_glxgears': No such file or directory ACCESS DENIED unlink: /usr/X11R6/bin/fireglcontrolpanel rm: cannot lstat `/usr/X11R6/bin/fireglcontrolpanel': No such file or directory This appears to be due to the fact that ARCH_DIR is unset. In any case the removal command should fail when not working. Besides I got a number of the following: PLEASE UPDATE TO YOUR PACKAGE TO USE linux-info.eclass And the docs are not installed.
emerge info please, I cannot reproduce the issue and looks like you managed to get some corruption on sync probably.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122335 ***