>>> emerge (3 of 9) kde-base/kcminit-3.4.0_beta2 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) kdebase-3.3.92.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Extracting from tarball... tar: kdebase-3.3.92/configure.in.mid: Not found in archive tar: kdebase-3.3.92/NEWS: Not found in archive tar: kdebase-3.3.92/ChangeLog: Not found in archive tar: kdebase-3.3.92/doc/kcminit: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >>> Source unpacked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
The generic unpack function tries to get these files, but they do not necessarily exist in every tarball. There's nothing wrong about it, we just can't supress them, since real error output would get lost as well.