> >> I'd add a new ebuild for qemu-user that is always static, with a
> >> initscript to ease having the binfmt set up, it will be close
> >> resembiling the ebuild qemu-user-static from sabayon and not colliding
> >> with qemu.
> > 
> > could you please add target useflags (like the other qemu ebuilds offer)
> > as most users aren't interested in more than one or two target platforms
> > (e.g. I only need arm) and afaik building them all takes a lot of time...
> 
> Done, now I need to test it a little and make sure the initscript works
> as supposed.

As for compilation times it can be greatly reduced [1]
just by dropping -g by default (sits in -9999 ebuild):

        sed -e 's/CFLAGS="-g $CFLAGS"/CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"/g' \
                -i configure || die

BTW, there is qemu-1.0.1 out. 

[1]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/355861 (qemu OOMs on gcc-4.5)

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  Sergei