In portage-2.1.7.14 and 2.2_rc59 there is support for EAPI 3_pre2, which adds support for installation prefix variables (ED, EPREFIX, and EROOT) and support for unpack of *.xz compressed files. Bug 296700 tracks EAPI 3 support in portage, and bug 273620 is for the EAPI 4 stuff that used to be in EAPI 3 but got delayed.
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Wow. Does that mean I can now install Qt 4.6 in /usr/local while having Qt 4.5.3 in /usr? If yes, how?
Well, prefix support is intended for installing a mostly self-contained prefix that has only minimal dependency on the host system. See the prefix project for more information.