The following lines in the aspell 0.50 ebuild are not needed: # needed to compile if [ -e /lib/libc-2.2.5.so ] && [ `gcc -dumpversion` == "2.95.3" ]; then if [ ! -f /etc/aspell/aspell.conf ]; then mkdir -p /etc/aspell touch /etc/aspell/aspell.conf fi if [ ! -f /root/.aspell.conf ]; then touch /root/.aspell.conf fi fi These lines were included as a workaround for the 0.33 aspell ebuilds. I am pretty sure this not so pretty hack is unnecessary for 0.50. I was one of the people having problems with the 0.33 version. I tried rebuilding the aspell 0.50 ebuild after removing the aforementioned lines from the ebuild and deleting the two conf files. It built fine.
good point, I shall remove them shortly
updated in portage.