I asked about this odd behaviour here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1033050.html If portage has a complaint it should be more clear, if not then it should shut up like all well behaved *NIX utils.
Maybe ewarn can be turned to einfo?
(In reply to Tomáš Mózes from comment #1) > Maybe ewarn can be turned to einfo? i switched to einfo going forward