Gentoo distcc bug

I just filed a bug report with Gentoo over distcc being called by portage when it's been disabled.  I'm rebuilding world on our base Gentoo image server, and it was dying during while doing the bootstrap to bring gcc to 4.3.2-r3.  It took me forever to figure out that distcc was the culprit, but I finally saw an error that said one of the other systems was rejecting a compile flag (presumably since the flag was new for 4.3.2-r3).  What confused me was that distcc is disabled - it's not in /etc/make.conf FEATURES, and I don't have /usr/lib/distcc/bin in my PATH to hit the distcc symlinks first.  In order to get portage to stop using it, I finally had to rename /etc/distcc/hosts so that distcc didn't have anywhere to send its chunks of code.

The bug looks like 250776 which they closed as INVALID a few months back.  I had more information than the original poster, so hopefully they'll reopen it and track down the actual problem.