Please, update portage with the latest version of lxsplit (0.2.4), release on 2008-10-03. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
lxSplit-0.2.4: Maintainance release after version 0.2.3. - split: if the input is not a regular file, give up immediately. - main: updated the help output (authors, website.)
added, please file a stable req in 30 days. I will forget.