I hope they can be patched, as xfce4-4.3.9.2 doesn't provide their functionality. In they can't, you should mark them as requiring xfce4-4.2. checking for xfce4-panel-1.0 >= 4.0.0... Package xfce4-panel-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xfce4-panel-1.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'xfce4-panel-1.0' found configure: error: Library requirements (xfce4-panel-1.0 >= 4.0.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/xfce4-netload-0.3.2/work/xfce4-netload-plugin-0.3.2/config.log !!! ERROR: xfce-extra/xfce4-netload-0.3.2 failed. checking for xfce4-panel-1.0 >= 3.99.2... Package xfce4-panel-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xfce4-panel-1.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'xfce4-panel-1.0' found configure: error: Library requirements (xfce4-panel-1.0 >= 3.99.2) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/xfce4-systemload-0.3.6/work/xfce4-systemload-plugin-0.3.6/config.log !!! ERROR: xfce-extra/xfce4-systemload-0.3.6 failed.
Uhm? Using stable versions against package.masked XFCE won't exactly fly.