kde-base/kdebase-meta don't depend on kde-base/kdebase-startkde, kde-base/kdesu, kde-base/konsole and kde-base/konqueror. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde-base/kdeaccessibility-meta kde-base/kdeaddons-meta kde-base/kdeadmin-meta kde-base/kdeartwork-meta kde-base/kdebase-meta kde-base/kdegames-meta kde-base/kdegraphics-meta kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta kde-base/kdenetwork-meta kde-base/kdepim-meta kde-base/kdesdk-meta kde-base/kdetoys-meta kde-base/kdeutils-meta Actual Results: KDE instalation don't have startkde, kdesu, konsole and konqueror. I solved it with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde-base/konsole kde-base/kdesu kde-base/kdebase-startkde kde-base/konqueror
Those dependencies are there, as you can see by looking inside kdebase-meta-3.4.0.ebuild...
Based on Comment #1 this Bug is WORKSFORME, please reopen if this is still an issue for you.