Index: portage-2.2.8.ebuild
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.2.8.ebuild,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 portage-2.2.8.ebuild
--- portage-2.2.8.ebuild	18 Jan 2014 11:37:44 -0000	1.2
+++ portage-2.2.8.ebuild	18 Jan 2014 20:19:52 -0000
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@
 	elibc_glibc? ( >=sys-apps/sandbox-2.2 )
 	elibc_uclibc? ( >=sys-apps/sandbox-2.2 )
 	>=app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.17
-	xattr? ( kernel_linux? ( || ( >=dev-lang/python-3.3_pre20110902 dev-python/pyxattr ) ) )
 	selinux? ( || ( >=sys-libs/libselinux-2.0.94[python] <sys-libs/libselinux-2.0.94 ) )
 	!<app-shells/bash-3.2_p17
 	!<app-admin/logrotate-3.8.0"
@@ -81,6 +80,16 @@
 # coreutils-6.4 rdep is for date format in emerge-webrsync #164532
 # NOTE: FEATURES=installsources requires debugedit and rsync
 
+RDEPEND+=" xattr? ( kernel_linux? ("
+for _pyimpl in python{2_6,2_7,3_2} pypy2_0; do
+	RDEPEND+="
+		python_targets_${_pyimpl}? (
+			>=dev-python/pyxattr-0.5.1[python_targets_${_pyimpl}]
+		)"
+done
+unset _pyimpl
+RDEPEND+=" ) )"
+
 SRC_ARCHIVES="http://dev.gentoo.org/~dolsen/releases/portage"
 
 prefix_src_archives() {