it would be useful to have 'emerge info' include the output of 'python -V' (the python version) since there seems to be several bugs in portage which relate to specific python versions.
Bug has been fixed and released in stable portages on or before 2.0.51-r2
Casualty of automation ;) This one's not released yet.
using portage 2.0.51-r8 i get - can we close this one? <snip> Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-cko3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-cko3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.7 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Nov 27 2004, 09:03:13)] distcc 2.18.2 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 </snip>
in portage for a while now.