diff -ru portage-utils-0.3.1.orig/qcheck.c portage-utils-0.3.1/qcheck.c
--- portage-utils-0.3.1.orig/qcheck.c	2010-01-16 18:26:29.000000000 -0600
+++ portage-utils-0.3.1/qcheck.c	2010-01-22 19:33:12.569895805 -0600
@@ -9,15 +9,16 @@
 
 #ifdef APPLET_qcheck
 
-#define QCHECK_FLAGS "eauAHTB" COMMON_FLAGS
+#define QCHECK_FLAGS "eauAHTBs:" COMMON_FLAGS
 static struct option const qcheck_long_opts[] = {
-	{"exact",   no_argument, NULL, 'e'},
-	{"all",     no_argument, NULL, 'a'},
-	{"update",  no_argument, NULL, 'u'},
-	{"noafk",   no_argument, NULL, 'A'},
-	{"nohash",  no_argument, NULL, 'H'},
-	{"nomtime", no_argument, NULL, 'T'},
-	{"badonly", no_argument, NULL, 'B'},
+	{"exact",   no_argument,       NULL, 'e'},
+	{"all",     no_argument,       NULL, 'a'},
+	{"update",  no_argument,       NULL, 'u'},
+	{"noafk",   no_argument,       NULL, 'A'},
+	{"nohash",  no_argument,       NULL, 'H'},
+	{"nomtime", no_argument,       NULL, 'T'},
+	{"badonly", no_argument,       NULL, 'B'},
+	{"skip",    required_argument, NULL, 's'},
 	COMMON_LONG_OPTS
 };
 static const char *qcheck_opts_help[] = {
@@ -27,7 +28,8 @@
 	"Ignore missing files",
 	"Ignore differing/unknown file chksums",
 	"Ignore differing file mtimes",
-	"Only print pkgs containing bad files excluding /etc.",
+	"Only print pkgs containing bad files",
+	"Ignore files matching the regular expression <arg>",
 	COMMON_OPTS_HELP
 };
 static const char qcheck_rcsid[] = "$Id: qcheck.c,v 1.42 2010/01/13 18:17:23 vapier Exp $";
@@ -36,6 +38,8 @@
 short bad_only = 0;
 #define qcprintf(fmt, args...) if (!bad_only) printf( _( fmt ), ## args)
 
+void qcheck_cleanup(regex_t **regex_head, int regex_count);
+
 int qcheck_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	DIR *dir, *dirp;
@@ -50,6 +54,8 @@
 	size_t num_files, num_files_ok, num_files_unknown, num_files_ignored;
 	char buf[_Q_PATH_MAX], filename[_Q_PATH_MAX];
 	char buffer[_Q_PATH_MAX];
+	regex_t **regex_head = NULL;
+	int regex_count = 0;
 
 	DBG("argc=%d argv[0]=%s argv[1]=%s",
 	    argc, argv[0], argc > 1 ? argv[1] : "NULL?");
@@ -64,15 +70,49 @@
 		case 'H': chk_hash = 0; break;
 		case 'T': chk_mtime = 0; break;
 		case 'B': bad_only = 1; break;
+		case 's': {
+				int regval;
+				regex_t **tmp = realloc(regex_head,
+					(regex_count+1) * sizeof(regex_t *));
+				if (tmp == NULL) {
+					warn("Could not allocate memory.");
+					continue;
+				}
+				regex_head = tmp;
+				regex_head[regex_count] = (regex_t *) malloc(sizeof(regex_t));
+				if (regex_head[regex_count] == NULL) {
+					warn("Could not allocate memory.");
+					continue;
+				}
+				regval = regcomp(regex_head[regex_count], optarg,
+					REG_EXTENDED|REG_NOSUB);
+				if (regval != 0) {
+					char errbuf[256];
+					if (regerror(regval, regex_head[regex_count], errbuf,
+						sizeof(errbuf)))
+						warn("Invalid regexp: %s -- %s\n", optarg, errbuf);
+					else
+						warn("Invalid regexp: %s\n", optarg);
+					regfree(regex_head[regex_count]);
+					free(regex_head[regex_count]);
+					continue;
+				}
+				regex_count++;
+			}
+			break;
 		}
 	}
-	if ((argc == optind) && !search_all)
+	if ((argc == optind) && !search_all) {
+		qcheck_cleanup(regex_head, regex_count);
 		qcheck_usage(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
 
 	xchdir(portroot);
 	xchdir(portvdb);
-	if ((dir = opendir(".")) == NULL)
+	if ((dir = opendir(".")) == NULL) {
+		qcheck_cleanup(regex_head, regex_count);
 		return EXIT_FAILURE;
+	}
 
 	/* open /var/db/pkg */
 	while ((dentry = q_vdb_get_next_dir(dir))) {
@@ -138,9 +178,6 @@
 				e = contents_parse_line(buf);
 				if (!e)
 					continue;
-				if (bad_only && strncmp(e->name, "/etc", 4) == 0) {
-					continue;
-				}
 				if (strcmp(portroot, "/") != 0) {
 					snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s%s", portroot, e->name);
 					e->name = filename;
@@ -148,6 +185,20 @@
 
 				/* run our little checks */
 				++num_files;
+				if (regex_count) {
+					int match = 0;
+					for (int j = 0; j < regex_count; j++) {
+						if (regexec(regex_head[j], e->name, 0, NULL, 0) == 0) {
+							match = 1;
+							break;
+						}
+					}
+					if (match == 1) {
+						--num_files;
+						++num_files_ignored;
+						continue;
+					}
+				}
 				if (lstat(e->name, &st)) {
 					/* make sure file exists */
 					if (chk_afk) {
@@ -302,9 +353,22 @@
 		xchdir("..");
 	}
 
+	qcheck_cleanup(regex_head, regex_count);
 	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }
 
+void qcheck_cleanup(regex_t **regex_head, int regex_count)
+{
+	if (regex_head == NULL) {
+		return;
+	}
+	for (int i = 0; i < regex_count; i++) {
+		regfree(regex_head[i]);
+		free(regex_head[i]);
+	}
+	free(regex_head);
+}
+
 #else
 DEFINE_APPLET_STUB(qcheck)
 #endif