current kdelibs dependency in any licq ebuild looks like this: DEPEND="kde? ( >=kde-base/kdelibs-3.0 ) RDEPEND="kde? ( >=kde-base/kdelibs-3.0 )" which pulls in kdelibs-4 on ~arch. The dependency should rather be: DEPEND="kde? ( =kde-base/kdelibs-3* ) RDEPEND="kde? ( =kde-base/kdelibs-3* )" please note that licq-1.3.6 (which is not in portage yet, see bug# 237816) introduced a qt-4 plugin which might become the base for a later kde-4 plugin as well. Cheers Poly-C Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Done, thx for spotting.