When emerge is running, I get the following error when trying to start imaps service (from the different console!): "Sandbox error : the PATH environmental variable should be defined." Investigation leads to the following: running ANY program with no PATH in the environment(like "env - sh"), while emerge is running (as I said in another console), will give the same error. i.e. .
fixed and will commit asa cvs is up again
portage 1.8.6 fixes this