The 'nofiles' group used to be provided by baselayout, but isn't any longer. The ebuild should call, enewgroup nofiles 200 At the beginning of the existing pkg_setup: pkg_setup() { enewuser fnord -1 -1 /etc/fnord nofiles enewuser fnordlog -1 -1 /etc/fnord nofiles } Discovered via bug 388537.
+ 24 Mar 2012; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> fnord-1.10-r2.ebuild: + Create nofiles group, bug #388565 by Michael Orlitzky. +