Over in bug 114734 it became apparent that some ebuilds (44 currently) do not have whitespace around their depend operators. Example: DEPEND="|| (foo bar)" instead of DEPEND="|| ( foo bar )". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 74361 [details, diff] Fix the 44 ebuilds in the tree as of 20051208
Created attachment 74446 [details, diff] Make repoman validate whitespace around operators in metadata strings
Released in portage-2.1_pre3
Released in 2.1_pre4