I think this falls under the category of "How long will it take somebody to notice this?" When emerging app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0-r3, I noticed the following: ... * Applying qpkg-deprecated.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying revdep-rebuild.112099.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. echo "YARMOUTH (vb.) To shout at foreigners in the belief that the louder you speak, the better they'll understand you." YARMOUTH (vb.) To shout at foreigners in the belief that the louder you speak, the better they'll understand you. echo "`python-config | sed 's/-l//' | sed 's/ -lm.*//'`" python2.4 echo 0.2.0 ... While expanding the vocabulary of portage users is a noble goal, I don't see this as a useful method of getting there.
Actually it falls under the category of humor. While you are correct that it is not needed, it isn't going to go away anytime soon.