sys-apps/man-1.6f-r3 (emerged as part of system, i.e. essential) wants to create a 'man' group, and uses $EPREFIX/usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass for this. This fails on 10.6 Snow Leopard because of line 420: case ${CHOST} in *-darwin9 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u system
Created attachment 203864 [details, diff] Patch
Thanks for your analysis and patch. I suspect that the future will bring us some more releases, so I fixed the darwin* case to darwin[678] and made the darwin9 case darwin*, such that it matches darwin10, darwin11 and so on ;) Committed!