I've simply applied the patch that fixes this bug: http://git.omp.am/?p=conky.git;a=commit;h=75ce3b259be20f4a304fbf90d7c5f55871c872da Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 212602 [details] the refreshed conky ebuild
Created attachment 212603 [details, diff] the patch to put into files/ subdirectory
Should be fixed in 1.8.0_rc2.