[~]# emerge sync !!! /etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges. !!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/ !!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.) Exiting due to signal [root] [ion] 1 0.00 [15:18:44] [~]# ls -ld /etc/make.profile/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 152 Aug 29 22:36 /etc/make.profile/ [root] [ion] 0 0.00 [15:18:46] [~]# ls -l /etc/make.profile/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 144 Sep 16 12:36 2.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 590 Aug 29 22:20 make.defaults -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 663 Jul 7 21:09 packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 343 Jun 3 14:09 parent [root] [ion] 0 0.00 [15:18:49] [~]#