Since some portage versionsquickpkg does not create anymore category/package->../All/package symlinks. I have not yet tried whether they are not needed anymore, but at least this behavior is inconsistent with what you get when you use emerge FEATURES=buildpkg.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 185305 ***
/me stabs bugzilla... this 'jump on next open bug in the list' feature must die! :X
Created attachment 124914 [details, diff] create a symlink when quickpkg injects a new package This is fixed in svn r7269.
This has been released in 2.1.3_rc9.