Stig Mogensen wrote:
> I goofed......did a emerge depclean, and out went libattr and libacl.
welcome to the club :-)
did the same stupid thing half a year ago and lost my libacl, too.

> I've tried 2, and had no succes....
is the *.so symlinked to *.so.1?
did u symlink /usr/lib/blah to /lib/blah, too?

see my symlinks here ..

matt@gentoo:/usr/lib> ls -al libattr.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 13 16:54 libattr.so -> /lib/libattr.so
matt@gentoo:/usr/lib> ls -al libacl.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 13 16:55 libacl.so -> /lib/libacl.so
matt@gentoo:/usr/lib> cd /lib/
matt@gentoo:/lib> ls -al libacl.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 13 16:55 libacl.so -> libacl.so.1
matt@gentoo:/lib> ls -al libattr.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 13 16:54 libattr.so -> libattr.so.1

just relink ev'rything and yr gentoo should be fine.

HTH
Matt