Ebuild contains: use xml || ewarn "You have configured Python without XML support." ewarn "This is NOT a recommended configuration as you" ewarn "may face problems parsing any XML documents." Clearly this should be: if ! use xml; then ewarn "You have configured Python without XML support." ewarn "This is NOT a recommended configuration as you" ewarn "may face problems parsing any XML documents." fi
It should be fixed in python-2.5.4-r1.