Again, the title says it all. IMHO it's easier to do it this way than to mess around with protection. I'm including the patch to drop into ${FILESDIR}, I haven't integrated it into the current ebuild though.
Created attachment 91644 [details, diff] bbpager-confinetc.patch
Closing bug WONTFIX. In the current ebuild, there is no messing around with protection from what I can see, so I don't see a real reason for this fix. Also, bbpager is part of a greater set (bbtools) and a change in bbpager's configuration location will make bbpager and other parts of bbtools inconsistent. Please reopen the bug if you feel like I'm making a mistake. ;)