Emerge gaim produces the following output: Calculating dependencies | !!! Error: couldn't find match for || in net-im/gaim-0.59.1 ...This is from a very recent (as in 5 minutes ago) rsync'd ebuild, unmodified. My only make.conf settings are "-kde -qt rpm dvd".
What version of portage? Are you still having this problem? I tried 10 different combinations of USE keywords and was unable to reproduce.
0.59.3 is out now