In the pine-4.58 ebuild, there appears to be no logic to handle the passfile patch. Any of these fail to produce a passfile-enabled pine: (1) putting passfile as a USE option in make.conf (2) using 'passfile' as a USE option on the command-line (3) mucking with the IUSE list in the ebuild However, adding this line does work: epatch ${FILESDIR}/pine-4.56-passfile.patch This should be a USE option, since not everyone will want a passfile for security reasons. Alternative to all of the above, I am an idiot and missing something obvious. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
'passfile' first introduced in pine-4.58-r2. Please try the latest verison in the portage tree.