Summary says it all, new version released on September 25. I used the 0.8.5.1 ebuild and it compiled and installed fine. The only think I am missing is a proper K-menu entry, but I'm not entirely sure if this is a problem specific to my system. The kvpnc.desktop file which is placed at /usr/share/applnk/ doesn't seem to be noticed by my K-menu. Apart from this, everything is smooth. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-suspend2-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-suspend2-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 Last Sync: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:30:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.3-r1, 2.0.27-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident -Wl,-O1 -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distcc distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com" LANG="en.US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 #cpu #graphics #hardware #other #print #sound #video X acpi alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss exif fam firefox flags foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm hal input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics isdnlog java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad matroska mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis wifi win32codecs xcomposite xine xml xorg xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
0.8.6.1 was released on Sep. 28th.
committed in portage, thanks for reporting.