~amd64 (which is k3b-2.0.1-r1) still depends on HAL. The last time I checked this, work was on-going to solve that. But, as of now, HAL is the only way k3b has to find devices, in gentoo at least. I remember that in the past there was a configurator where you could manually configure the devices from k3b. I don't know if that code is still there. Maybe the it is and the problem is that Gentoo removes it.
The message at the end of the ebuild is suspicious in this regard. echo elog "We don't install k3bsetup anymore because Gentoo doesn't need it." elog "If you get warnings on start-up, uncheck the \"Check system" elog "configuration\" option in the \"Misc\" settings window." echo It might be possible to disable hal via some flag and then remove the "-DK3B_BUILD_K3BSETUP=OFF" above you be able to manually configure k3b without needing HAL. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
