Created attachment 458874 [details, diff] patch If X exists, ... "portage will not modify it's permissions" should be "portage will not modify its permissions". (File /etc/portage/make.conf.example, which is symlinked to /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example.)
Thanks, there were actually 2 occurrences of it's I fixed. fixed in commit: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=d5fe26e92c3a990134f0e660d7fd0f4f8c7ebf11
Fixed in portage-2.3.3.