I was doing a "emerge -uND world" and got these blockers: . . . [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kwin-3.5.8) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kwin-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8-r6) after asking for help at the german gentoo-forum someone pointed out that the x11-themes/liquid-0.9.7 package was demanding for the "kde-base/kwin" package: . . [nomerge ] x11-themes/liquid-0.9.7 USE="xinerama -debug" [ebuild N ] kde-base/kwin-3.5.8 USE="arts xinerama -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xcomposite" 16 kB . . so,taking a look at the ebuild he found: /usr/portage/x11-themes/liquid/liquid-0.9.7.ebuild: . . DEPEND="|| ( =kde-base/kwin-3.5* =kde-base/kdebase-3.5 )" . . ^ missing "*" after adding the missing "*" and executing ebuild /usr/portage/x11-themes/liquid/liquid-0.9.7.ebuild digest the blockers disappeared... Reproducible: Didn't try emerge --info: Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Timestamp of tree: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -funroll-all-loops -funit-at-a-time -fpeel-loops -ftracer -funswitch-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-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/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -funroll-all-loops -funit-at-a-time -fpeel-loops -ftracer -funswitch-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb divx4linux doc dri dvd dvdr eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode esd fam fbcon fftw flac flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml iconv imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jikes joystick jpeg kde lcms ldap leim lesstif libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mbox midi motif mp3 mpeg mudflap mule ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pampdflib pcre perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sdl session slang spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb videos wmf wxwindows xface xinerama xml xml2 xorg xosd xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keybord mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia mesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
