Don't use broken ebuilds. Don't report problems when using broken ebuilds.
An ebuild is fundamentally just a way to script a build. No script written yesterday can be expected to completely work tomorrow...? [However, in this case I'm not quite sure why the script needs to be as complicated as it is... Perhaps they are trying to support parallel builds..?] Can't "we" just "support" the ebuilds here and spend the 5 seconds needed to fix them if they break? It doesn't seem like a big deal really?
As an aside, I'm not really quite sure why you don't like the gentoo package manager? It's controversial, but the nice thing about it to me is that once a nice build script is generated then it's easy to run it against newer versions as they are released. In particular it's quite nice when you want to follow a cvs build, but still keep a package managers ability to track files - for example I use it to follow the mplayer cvs whilst still adding in some minor mods of my own - whenever I upgrade I can be sure that all the old files are removed and hence fewer possible problems with stale dependencies..
You could imagine it as a way to distribute the scripts to build and install RPM packages if you like... The ebuilds can happily generate packages if you like (which is the best way to install huge things like KDE, just grab a pre-compiled package...)
Anyway, I started writing something else and have gone waaaayyy off topic and accidently started down the path to advocacy. Sorry all
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