The following programs are part of the kde-3.3.0_beta2 but are not masked. There are probably some very serious bugs in these versions, and should probably be masked as the beta1 versions were. =kde-base/arts-1.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdebase-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdenetwork-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdepim-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdeutils-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdesdk-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdegames-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdetoys-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdeartwork-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdeaddons-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdeadmin-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdeaccessibilty-3.3.0_beta2 =kde-base/kdewebdev-3.3.0_beta2 There is no kdegraphics-3.3.0_beta2 ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u arts kdelibs kdebase kdenetwork kdepim kdemultimedia kdeutils kdesdk kdegames kdeedu kdetoys kdeartwork kdeaddons kdeadmin kdeaccessibility kdewebdev Actual Results: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] kde-base/arts-1.3.0_beta2 +alsa -artswrappersuid -esd +mad +oggvorbis 950 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.0_beta2 +alsa -arts +cups -doc -ipv6 +ldap +ssl 15,334 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdebase-3.3.0_beta2 -arts +cups +encode +java +ldap +motif +opengl +pam -samba +ssl 17,678 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdenetwork-3.3.0_beta2 -jabber -samba -slp +ssl +wifi 6,768 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdepim-3.3.0_beta2 +crypt +ldap -pda 8,869 kB [ebuild N ] media-sound/trm-0.2.1 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.3.0_beta2 +alsa +encode -flac -gstreamer +oggvorbis 5,197 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeutils-3.3.0_beta2 2,150 kB [ebuild N ] media-gfx/graphviz-1.12 +tcltk 3,292 kB [ebuild N ] dev-util/valgrind-2.1.2 +X 939 kB [ebuild N ] dev-util/calltree-0.9.7 0 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdesdk-3.3.0_beta2 4,285 kB[ebuild N ] kde-base/kdegames-3.3.0_beta2 9,201 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.0_beta2 21,431 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdetoys-3.3.0_beta2 2,727 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.3.0_beta2 +opengl 17,376 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeaddons-3.3.0_beta2 -esd +sdl +svga +xmms 1,513 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeadmin-3.3.0_beta2 +pam 1,529 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeaccessibility-3.3.0_beta2 1,203 kB [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdewebdev-3.3.0_beta2 -doc 4,546 kB Total size of downloads: 124,997 kB Expected Results: It should have given me the standard masked package error, such as: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "=kdelibs-3.3.0_beta2" have been masked. !!! possible candidates are: - kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.0_beta2 (masked by: package.mask) !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -funroll-loops -mmmx -msse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -funroll-loops -mmmx -msse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi aim alsa avi berkdb bzlib cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cjk crypt cups directfb divx4linux dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode fbcon foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib java javascript joystick jpeg kerberos krb4 ldap libcaca libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mpeg4 mplayer ncurses net nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam passfile pcmcia pdflib perl php png pnp ppds python qt quicktime radeon readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff timidity truetype usb videos vim-with-x wifi wxwindows x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xprint xrandr xv xvid zlib"
they're not masked on purpose - they're rather stable, and still listed as ~unstable. You don't have to install them if you don't want.