On or around line 439, improper pluralization. The asterisk following ipv6 indicates that ipv6 support was disabled the last time this packages was installed. Should be 'package'. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man emerge
Confirmed in 2.2_rc67.
Fixed: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commitdiff;h=7eff358f9e25858d466eb90a6b8a77f79ebd5e52
This is fixed in 2.2_rc73, but I'll leave this bug open until it's fixed in an unmasked version.
This is fixed in 2.1.9.