The new sed-4.2 ebuild is missing a libacl (acl USE) (R)DEPEND which can cause sed to be installed without its required libacl library when ROOT!=/. This breaks Gentoo and Funtoo stage1 builds. The following patch should fix the issue (testing here now...): http://github.com/funtoo/portage/commit/b2a9a3766fd67408dc61b137f265f73f574adee1 Reproducible: Always
I have confirmed that this patch fixes the stage1 build issue that results in a non-functional sed binary.
fixed in cvs, thanks http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/sed/sed-4.2.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3