Well.. Ive never done an emerge, but 2 obvious things I can guess are:
1) needing (and not being) root when emerging.
2) directory existing, but emerge expecting you have no kde... 

possibly moving your /root/.kde to /root/orig.kde may solve the problem....

Jamie

On Friday 30 May 2003 04:29 pm, Bob Miller wrote:
: Every time I try to emerge kde-base/kdebase-3.1.2, it
: blows up with many occurrences of this message.
:
:       ACCESS DENIED mkdir:     /root/.kde
:       trying to create local folder: Permission denied
:       failed to create /root/.kde/share/config/
:
: Anybody know about this error?  Any good ideas for working around it?
:
: Thanks...

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