> Please consider a new PROPERTIES=interactive setting that allows an
> ebuild to indicate that it uses stdin and stdout for user

I don't think anyone will disagree with this one. The one problem that I 
see is that if the ebuild still doesn't have this value in it, portage 
will *look* like it has hung itself out to dry. I have no idea if this 
is easy to fix or not. If it is easy, then I still would like to propose 
that it gets sent to the foreground when in background mode. What will 
portage's behavior be when the user asks to be in background mode and 
there is an ebuild in the depgraph that has PROPERTIES=interactive? If 
it bails out, then the problem described above is moot (only if 
maintainers are diligent).

-Jeremy