I think it's the accident that maintainer try to prune adodb-ext but without remove all files (ChangeLog Manifest files metadata.xml). ${category}/${package} contain no ebuild makes no sense. Reproducible: Always
> @floppym | dlan: Naw, he forgot to cvs add the -r3 ebuild.
What a strange thing to do ... And it only took two years to discover. Might be that we purge this package since upstream has been dead for a few years.