I am annoyed by a little more generous thing lately, which i am afraid isn't fixable by a summer of code. But you wanted to know what annoys me, so here it is.
There was a lib update, that broke sancho a while ago. A new version of sancho fixed this. But i had to use this new version from the developers site, because even ~arch package was several versions lower. Some weeks ago the oscar protocol or something was changed and pidgin was not able to login to icq. New version fixed this instantly, but it took a while till this version hit ~arch. Again i had to install a program outside of portage. Gnome 2.26 was released and 2.24 hit portage around that time. I just built me an openbox desktop today. Google and Openbox Hompage show quite a few docks which can be used. None of them is in portage or it is hardmasked. There where two docks available, one segfaulted! I found a great taskbar named tint2, not in portage. I compiled it and it works perfectly. This is what annoys me most lately. And yes, i am planning on reading into ebuild stuff and trying to contribute. regards Norman