diffutils-2.8.4.ebuild has sandbox violations trying to install some locale stuff. it needs to have the following line added to the "make install" command datadir=${D}/usr/share
2 steps ahead of ya bucko ... `emerge rsync` and try again root@rux0r ripmime # grep datadir /usr/portage/sys-apps/diffutils/diffutils- 2.8.4.ebuild econf --datadir=${D}/usr/share --build=${CHOST} \ *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8364 ***