2003.0 emerge system does not install dhcpd by default. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge system 2. 3. Actual Results: built stage 2 without dhcpd Expected Results: built stage 2 with dhcpd
There is an easy workaround: emerge dhcpd However this was previous fuctionality that has been removed. All users are impacted and unless they pay atention to the symptoms they are stumped.
not a bug see the gentoo-dev mailing list
Also, please see the install docs -- they document this change.