Bleh , seems that chinstrap builds got slapped in the face again. more packages that need touchy-feely in that you require a .config for the kernel to build them.
Annoying, I don't want to hand touch such, I'll have to setup something that simply does "make oldconfig" in a post-launch environment. .-/
or I'll have to fix the original issue, but that is work :p
update:
cdrtools +crypt (default USE flag) has a dependency on cryptsetup, which requires a kernel to be configured in beforehand in order to even build.
Seems I have to patch around this, create a "kernel-config" package and install, or something such. :-(
Grmfs.
grep headers /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/packages
>=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.5
grep headers /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
...
>=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6
....GRMFS.