# emerge -pu world These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating world dependencies - !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "media-libs/libquicktime" have been masked. !!! (dependency required by "media-video/xawtv-3.80" [ebuild])
that's just why you have "quicktime" in your make.conf
no, the dependency not being in stable was my fault. fixed in portage.