I don't think this is intended and even if this is from dssi but have a look at this: ~ # emerge -uDpvt world [nomerge ] media-sound/rosegarden-4.1.2.3 USE="lirc xinerama -arts -debug" [nomerge ] media-libs/dssi-0.9.1 USE="qt3" [ebuild NS ] x11-libs/qt-4.1.2 USE="cups gif jpeg mng mysql nas opengl png sqlite xinerama zlib -accessibility -debug -doc -examples -firebird -nis -odbc -postgres" 0 kB It could also be my setup?! Don't know how further to track this down... biggy ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="..." LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aac acl acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 bzlib cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli crypt css cups dbus dga divx4linux dlloader dnd dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif fam flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnokii gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq ieee1394 imap imlib iproute2 isdnlog jack java jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdepim kdexdeltas lcd lcms ldap libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mikmod mime mmx mng mp3 mpeg musepack musicbrainz mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl pic png povray pppd python qt qt3 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session slp sndfile speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse ssl svg szip tcpd threads tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb utf8 vcd vidix vorbis webdav win32codecs xcomposite xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_nv" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is normal behaviour with slots. If you don't want qt-4, you need to package.mask it. Any ebuild that depends on >=x11-libs/qt-3 will install highest available for your keywords.
