If UNMERGE_DELAY is not set in the environment, emerge --zap error out with the following message: " # emerge --zap media-sound/glame media-sound/glame-0.6.0 Traceback (most recen call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 966, in ? secs=string.atoi(portage.settings["UNMERGE_DELAY"]) File "/usr/lib/spython2.0/string.py", line 215, in atoi return _int(s, base) ValueError: invalid literal for int(): " Setting UNMERGE_DELAY to 5 produces the expected behaviour. I couldn't find any references in the emerge manpage or emerge --help which refered to this environment variable.
our new make.globals includes this, shouldn't be a problem.