I just bumped net-irc/xchat-gnome to 0.9-r1 and had to drop the amd64 and ppc keywords, due to the new libnotify (and notification-daemon) dependency. Please test and re-keyword, thanks!
Builds and appears to work fine here, safe to regain the ~amd64 keywording. [ebuild R ] net-irc/xchat-gnome-0.9-r1 USE="dbus ipv6 libnotify libsexy nls perl python ssl -debug -tcltk" 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-libs/libnotify-0.3.2 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.3.4 USE="-debug" 0 kB darktama@araqiel ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.0-beta20060210, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-rc3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-rc3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.91.0.6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -g -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -g -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo/" LC_ALL="en_AU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bdirect -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/home/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/scratch /usr/local/overlays/libc /usr/local/overlays/fdo_cvs /usr/local/overlays/rebuild_misc /usr/local/overlays/rebuild_gcc4 /usr/local/overlays/rebuild_asneeded /usr/local/overlays/e17 /usr/local/overlays/xgl-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac acl acpi alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hardened imagemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg ldap lzw lzw-tiff mad mmap mono mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis xinerama xml2 xpm xprint xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG
~amd64 added. Thanks for testing.
re-added to ~ppc