You can find here what ebits is : it is necessary for build E17 http://www2.linuxforum.net/RPM/freshrpms/redhat/testing/9/e17/ebits-devel-1.0.1-fr0.20030417.1.i386.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-love8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-love8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic pie png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
ebits is dead dude i removed it from the tree not too long ago if, for some reason, you still want the ebuild, you can grab it here: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/media-libs/ebits/