Created attachment 332494 [details, diff] i3-4.3-fix-ar.patch =x11-wm/i3-4.3 calls ar directly. The proposed patch fixes the problem.
Created attachment 332496 [details, diff] i3-4.3.ebuild.patch This is the patch for the ebuild. With this one the ebuild will apply the ar-fix patch.
Created attachment 332500 [details, diff] i3-4.3.ebuild.patch This patch obsoletes the two above. Does the same with only one sed command.
+ 16 Dec 2012; Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org> i3-4.3.ebuild, + i3-4.4.ebuild: + Respect AR wrt #447496 by Vicente Olivert Riera <peratu@carrosses.com>
http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3/commit/?id=ef81bd183b579688b9f1a46a41c817b577d0b39e