Most of the dev-php/PEAR-* packages are installed into /usr/lib/php with -rw-rw-rw- protection to the files. Some of the packages that have this problem: PEAR-Cache PEAR-Mail (lots of others too!) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I can't reproduce this. If just merged PEAR-Cache, PEAR-Mail_Mime and PEAR-Log and all the files look good. mcvaio /usr/lib/php % find . -perm +o+w mcvaio /usr/lib/php % Which version of portage are you using? Have you tried unmerging them and merging them again?
The original problem seems to be from dev-php/mod_php-4.3.0-r2. When reporting I was installing both that and multiple PEAR packages and though that the later ones were the cause. I retested this in a new computer that hadn't any php stuff earlier. When installing mod_php (with USE=apache2) files with write access to all in /usr/lib/php appeared. Before that the directory didn't exist.
well, whatever bug used to exist doesnt anymore, so i think we're all set here ;)