i d/l-ed current amd64 stage3 (20111201) and found it had an /etc/portage/modules file in it. (newer?) portage likes to warn about this: /usr/libx32/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:349: UserWarning: 'cache.metadata_overlay.database' is deprecated: /etc/portage/modules (user_auxdbmodule, modules_file))
I have now confirmed that "options = metadata_overlay" triggers this
Created attachment 295561 [details, diff] Patch to drop metadata_overlay support from catalyst I'm going to commit this patch to drop the support for metadata_overlay.
This had already been "fixed" on the catalyst rewrite. Applied patch to the catalyst_2 branch - http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/catalyst.git;a=commit;h=9cb9cb0bbdc0fe1ae4a9f41a985c96f54fd08dc0
This was fixed sometime ago.