portage on mac

The gentoo prefix portage throws up errors about man.ecompress.dir conflicts. When observed closely, it also threw up errors about xargs not recognisng -r flag. Thats because the default xargs doesn't support gnu extensions. So we need to emerge findutils. THere is a catch though. it fails too. you need to comment out the line that stops locate being built. and then do an ebuild findutils-.ebuild digest. Then the install will happily continue.