As you can see, sci-chemistry/kemestry depends of kde-3.5.2, but it runs right on kde-3.5.3 emerge -pvuDt kemistry These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] sci-chemistry/kemistry-0.7 USE="-debug -xinerama" [ebuild UD] kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.2 [3.5.3] USE="arts berkdb kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility subversion -debug -xinerama" 4,762 kB [ebuild UD] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6 [3.5.3-r4] USE="acl alsa arts cups jpeg2k kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kerberos spell ssl tiff -debug -doc -legacyssl -openexr -xinerama -zeroconf" 15,080 kB [ebuild UD] kde-base/arts-3.5.2-r1 [3.5.3-r1] USE="alsa artswrappersuid esd jack kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility mp3 nas vorbis -debug -xinerama" 944 kB
(In reply to comment #0) > As you can see, sci-chemistry/kemestry depends of kde-3.5.2, but it runs right > on kde-3.5.3 It does not... <snip> DEPEND="kde-base/kdelibs || ( kde-base/kdesdk-misc kde-base/kdesdk-meta kde-base/kdesdk )" need-kde 3 </snip> Reopen once you've found what really has broken dependencies (putting <3.5.2 into /etc/portage/package.mask should help).