Can we please add a call to epatch_user in src_prepare? When eapi5 hits, it can simply be changed to apply_user_patches.
we don't generally add epatch_user to all packages, we do it for ones that get commonly patched. which coreutils is not. so you need to provide justification.
http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/problems_with_posix_acls_and_common_utilities.php
have you even tried building coreutils with USE="acl xattr" ?
(In reply to comment #3) > have you even tried building coreutils with USE="acl xattr" ? Yup, the example from "A Simple Example" on that page was done with coreutils[acl,xattr].