$ emerge -v gnome-icon-theme Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-1.2.1 to / >>> Downloading http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/1 --01:03:17-- http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/1 => `/mnt/raid0/gentoo/distfiles/1' $ emerge --info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r7 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 distcc 2.13 i686-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=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4" 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/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/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4" DISTDIR="/mnt/raid0/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/packages-pentium3" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage" USE="3ds X Xaw3d aalib acl alsa amd apache2 apm arts atlas avi berkdb bindist bonobo caps cdr clisp crypt cups curl dga directfb dnd doc dv dvb dvd dvdr emacs encode esd ethereal evo f77 faac faad fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb gb gd gd-external gdbm ggi gif gimp gnome gnomedb gnutls gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 jack java javascript jikes joystick jpeg junit justify kde kerberos krb4 lcms ldam leim libg++ libgda libwww lirc mad mbox md5sum mikmod mmx mng motif mozcalendar mozctl mozilla mozinterfaceinfo mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mpi mule mysql nas ncurses net nls nptl oav objc odbc offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam parse-clocks pda pdflib perl php pic plotutils png pnp ppds python qhull qt quicktime readline rplay ruby samba sasl sdk sdl slang slp snmp socks5 sox speex spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype trusted type1 unicode usb v4l videos wmf wxwindows x86 xchattext xemacs xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/gnome2.eclass,v 1.44 2004/07/23 04:52:37 obz Exp $ The date makes me really think this is the culprit... so bumping severity as this likely effects other packages. borks in portage-2.0.51_pre13 as well
It was actually the gnome.org eclass, has been fixed now, please resync.
Fixed, please emerge sync and try again.