This bug tracks the implementation of EAPI 3 in portage.
Decision in the 2009-12-07 council meeting: "Because prefix support will be EAPI-3 (see below), the EAPI items referenced here will be referred to as EAPI-4 in the future."
This is fixed in 2.1.9.27.
Re-opening, pending resolution of bug 211529, bug 322049, and anything more that may arise.