dispatch-conf in portage-2.0.51-r2 will not run because /etc directory on Mac OS X is a symlink from /private/etc. I'll attach a patch to use dispatch-conf on ppc-macos. The patch is similar to the one applied to etc-update.
Created attachment 42786 [details, diff] dispatch-conf.diff
Wouldn't it be great if they were all this simple. :)
Thanks. It's in 2.0.51-r3 :)