net-misc/rsync/rsync-2.6.0.ebuild does not set the IUSE variable. Please add this line: IUSE="build static" Thanks! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. grep IUSE /usr/portage/net-misc/rsync/rsync-2.6.0.ebuild Actual Results: sascha@cube:~$ grep IUSE /usr/portage/net-misc/rsync/rsync-2.6.0.ebuild sascha@cube:~$ Expected Results: sascha@cube:~$ grep IUSE /usr/portage/net-misc/rsync/rsync-2.6.0.ebuild IUSE="build static" sascha@cube:~$ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25-cube-3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25-cube-3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ distcc 2.12.1 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /usr/vice/etc /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/afs/modload /etc/gconf /etc/make.globals /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://hybrid.sascha.silbe.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acl afs apm avi berkdb cdr crypt doc dvd encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci imap imlib ipv6 j-noaim j-nomsn j-noyahoo jpeg krb4 lcms libg++ libwww linguas_en,de mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx monitor mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib png postgres python qt qtmt quicktime readline samba sdl skey spell sse ssl tetex tiff truetype unicode x86 xml xml2 xv zlib"
Added IUSE to the 2.6.0 ebuild. Thanks for the bug report.