Seems like there is a misseng dep on dev-python/setuptools >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/xmpppy-0.5.0_rc1/work/xmpppy-0.5.0-rc1 ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 4, in <module> from setuptools import setup ImportError: No module named setuptools
*** Bug 272718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
+ 04 Sep 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> xmpppy-0.5.0_rc1.ebuild: + Adding setuptools dep, fixes #274252