i cant see why the mpd init.d should require alsasound with "need" ... a "use" is sufficient and allows people to choose to use this script further, the "use net.lo" should be "use net" as there is no guarantee that mpd will be binding to the loopback interface only.
+ 06 Sep 2010; <angelos@gentoo.org> +mpd-0.15.12-r1.ebuild, + +files/mpd.conf.patch, +files/mpd.init: + Tweak default pid/log paths (bug #331723), fix init script dependencies + (bug #331725), reduce init script noise (bug #331727) and convert init + script to s-s-d (bug #331729)