The ati-drivers-8.16.20 ebuild should not be flagged as -*, but rather be pmasked. The only problems I noticed with them is that I had to set the correct modelines for my monitor in my xorg.conf(before that I got a "signal out of sync" message) and also write a new device section, pasted from a config file, generated by ati's fglrxconfig, because the new drivers take new parameters. I hardly think that those are enough to flag the drivers as -*. They should be pmasked and, more importantly, the user informed of the aforementioned quirks. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Would you please leave the keywording up to the maintainers? It has been keyworded -* three days ago b/c of too many problems - see the ChangeLog. Thanks.