Created attachment 423334 [details] emerge --info I am upgrandig to the latest kde in ~amd64. I encountered this problem which means that either kwin:4 must remain on my system or I can not install kde-apps/kdeartwork-meta. I also tried using the minimal use flag, but it makes no difference. letto@localhost ~ $ sudo emerge -av kdeartwork-meta:5 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] x11-apps/scripts-1.0.1-r1::gentoo 0 KiB [ebuild N ] kde-base/liboxygenstyle-4.11.22:4/4.11.22::gentoo USE="(-aqua) -debug" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kephal-4.11.22:4/4.11::gentoo USE="(-aqua) -debug" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kwin-4.11.22:4/4.11::gentoo USE="opengl (-aqua) -debug -gles -wayland" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] kde-apps/kdeartwork-styles-15.08.3:4/15.08::gentoo USE="(-aqua) -debug" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] kde-apps/kdeartwork-meta-15.08.3:5::gentoo USE="-minimal" 0 KiB [blocks B ] kde-base/kwin:4 ("kde-base/kwin:4" is blocking kde-plasma/kwin-5.5.3) Total: 6 packages (6 new), Size of downloads: 0 KiB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (kde-plasma/kwin-5.5.3:5/5::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >=kde-plasma/kwin-5.5.3:5 required by (kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.5.3:5/5::gentoo, installed) >=kde-plasma/kwin-5.5.3:5 required by (kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.5.3:5/5::gentoo, installed) >=kde-plasma/kwin-5.5.3:5 required by (kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.5.3:5/5::gentoo, installed) (kde-base/kwin-4.11.22:4/4.11::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=kde-base/kwin-4.11:4[aqua=] (>=kde-base/kwin-4.11:4[-aqua]) required by (kde-apps/kdeartwork-styles-15.08.3:4/15.08::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages
Your output is with USE=!mininmal which pulls in kdeartwork-styles - I agree, it should be dropped. What's the output with kdeartwork-meta[minimal]?
Which profile are you using? plasma profile is setting USE=minimal for kdeartwork-meta by default.
Latest version in tree gets rid of USE=minimal entirely so the issue should be gone.