Error added: 2006-04-01T22:46:34Z
Upgrade to portage-2.0.54 (or possibly later).
This is due to a version of portage being used that is too much older than the files retrieved using ($emerge --sync). The solution is to update portage to the most recent version. This cannot be done though without emerge complaining about this very error. The way I updated portage without trigering this problem was to ($emerge --oneshot portage).
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