localhost ~ # emerge portage
Calculating dependencies \/usr/portage/eclass/linux-info.eclass: line 128: cd: /root: Permission denied
/usr/portage/eclass/linux-info.eclass: line 128: cd: /root: Permission denied
/usr/portage/eclass/linux-info.eclass: line 128: cd: /root: Permission denied
/usr/portage/eclass/linux-info.eclass: line 128: cd: /root: Permission denied
/usr/portage/eclass/linux-info.eclass: line 128: cd: /root: Permission denied
/usr/portage/eclass/linux-info.eclass: line 128: cd: /root: Permission denied
/usr/portage/eclass/linux-info.eclass: line 128: cd: /root: Permission denied
... done!

!!! Error: the <sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 package conflicts with another package;
!!!        the two packages cannot be installed on the same system together.
!!!        Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.

For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked