It looks like the ebuild for sed-4.1.5 needs sed itself in the src_unpack function. This obviously fails if sed is not there. Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Last Sync: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11 dev-lang/python: 2.3.4, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 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: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" 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 /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 arts berkdb bidi bindist bitmap-fonts cairo cdda cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx4linux dlloader doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread edl eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam fame ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux ldap libg++ live lzo mad mailbox matroska mikmod mmx mmx2 mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls noweb nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive ofx ogg opengl oss pam pang pangoo pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quotes readline reflection samba sdl session spamassassin spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd theora threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU vhosts video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_vmware vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xinetd xml xorg xv xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
fixed in cvs