Hi, xterm 179 fixes a bug with line drawing characters in Truetype fonts. See this thread for more information: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=436493&highlight=#43649 I emerged and tested xterm 179 on x86 and sparc and it works fine so I assume its safe to mark it stable.
they're masked in package.mask but I will add all the arches when ready to unmask