octave on other plattforms (e.g. FreeBSD, Debian) comes with files (.el) which provide an octave-mode in Emacs or XEmacs. These files are missing in app-sci/octave. According to the documentation of octave these files should be provided by the octave-package. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.(workaround: add these files from another source) 2. 3. emerge info octave Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.4.2 5_pre7-gss-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 10 00MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/ dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/c onfig/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.inform atik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download /gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://mirrors. sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gen too ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/ pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X X509 aalib apm avi berkdb crypt cups dvd encode esd f77 foomaticdb gdbm g if gimpprint gnome gpm gtk gtk2 idea imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww lzw-tiff mad mikmod mmx mng motif mpeg mpeg4 ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl openssh oss pam pcm cia pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff transcode truetype wmf x86 xemacs xml2 xmms xv zlib"
-r1 (coming later today) should provide these files. Thanks for the hint.