No need to leave cruft behind ;) Patch attached.
Created attachment 108839 [details, diff] sparky-3.111.ebuild.diff
Look like we need to bump sparky to 3.113 since I can't even get at the source for 3.111 any more. Markus
Sorry, I forgot: Thanks for pointing this out Jakub:) Markus
Newer sparky finally has python 2.4 compat.
Done.