very important addition, some emerge probs are gone:

cat /etc/make.conf
...
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="jabber"
PORTAGE_ELOG_JABBERFROM="yyy@xxx:yyy"
PORTAGE_ELOG_JABBERTO="zzz@xxx.com"
...


i commtented these 3 lines out

might have something to do mit the elog system too

but some emerge probs stay AND "layman -S" still dead