>>> Emerging (1 of 1) gnome-extra/gnome-utils-2.16.2-r1 to / * gnome-utils-2.16.2.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gnome-utils-2.16.2.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gnome-utils-2.16.2.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gnome-utils-2.16.2.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gnome-utils-2.16.2.tar.bz2 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking gnome-utils-2.16.2.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking gnome-utils-2.16.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/gnome-utils-2.16.2-r1/work /usr/local/portage/gnome-extra/gnome-utils/gnome-utils-2.16.2-r1.ebuild: line 44: epatch: command not found >>> Source unpacked. I don't know is it right way to add epatch call into source_unpack() function, but if you want it you should inherit eutils eclass here. And why emerge doesn't stop on this error? I think it's not correctly behavior - I've seen this bug absolutely casually.
Created attachment 104618 [details] corrected ebuild
Whoops, my bad. Thanks for reporting this, it should work properly now.