(chroot) livecd / # emerge kdebase kdeadmin kdeartwork kdegames kdegraphics kdemultimedia kdeutils
--- 'profiles/arch.list' is empty or not available. Empty portage tree?
--- 'profiles/updates' is empty or not available. Empty portage tree?
!!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?
!!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?

(chroot) livecd / #

Make.conf :
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ "

SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"


INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"

PORTDIR=/usr/var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop/make.defaults

STAGE1_USE="nptl nptlonly unicode"

USE="alsa arts cairo cdr dbus dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam firefox gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal jpeg kde ldap mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ogg opengl oss png qt3 qt4 quicktime sdl spell truetype vorbis win32codecs unicode X xml xv"


make.conf profile (x86/desktop)

# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop/make.defaults,v 1.2 2006/09/12 14:02:50 wolf31o2 Exp $

STAGE1_USE="nptl nptlonly unicode"

USE="alsa arts cairo cdr dbus dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam firefox gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal jpeg kde ldap mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ogg opengl oss png qt3 qt4 quicktime sdl spell truetype vorbis win32codecs unicode X xml xv"