Stephen Fairchild wrote:

[Snip - portage-2.0.51-r1 problems]

>> Any help would be warmly received.
>
> Nothing to add except that I am having the same problem.

Known bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/68474). Sync and update portage.

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