I've just masked net-misc/vde because it has an open security bug, and no one to fix it: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c2ac0708d552db304ffeb6c217694420a4a8bb13 Can you please drop your "vde" USE flag and dependency on vde? Eventually it will be necessary to remove the package. Thanks!
NP-Hardass got the fixed init script working, so we can forget about this.