I'm not sure why it did it but when I did "emerge -e world" /bin/sh went missing. Then of course nothing really wanted to compile. Being seriously tired (I've had one hour sleep in the last 24hrs or so) and suffering from the flu I couldn't really remember what to do about it. Luckily a friend told me... and things are happily compiling again.
Question though will it keep the existing configs? I see that the kernel and grub is on that list... don't particularly need them recompiled but had no idea on how exactly to exclude them from the compile yet do everything else. Also why does it want to downgrade my portage to 46.r9? For now I'm just leaving it alone to do it's thing because I want my system functional and just had a tired flu stricken shock thinking "wtf do I do now??" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
