tracker bug so this doesnt get lost in the dev lists threads like this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/1643
Yes please.
This is fixed in svn r4661.
Brian Harring mentioned that some ebuilds monkey with the lib dirs in pre/postinst. In that case, we should probably make mtime changes force an ldconfig run.
To be on the safe side, in svn r4662 it forces an ldconfig run if the mtime has changed.
This has been released in 2.1.2_pre2-r9.