It's not possible to upgrade to the latest i3wm (where i3gaps has been masked) if polybar is also installed on the system. [blocks B ] x11-wm/i3 ("x11-wm/i3" is soft blocking x11-wm/i3-gaps-4.21.1) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (x11-wm/i3-4.22:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by x11-wm/i3 required by (x11-misc/polybar-3.6.3-r2:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="alsa i3wm ipc mpd network pulseaudio -curl -doc" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_10 -python3_11 -python3_8 -python3_9" (x11-wm/i3-gaps-4.21.1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by x11-wm/i3-gaps required by @selected I believe this should be a case of removing the dep from the polybar package.
> (x11-wm/i3-gaps-4.21.1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > x11-wm/i3-gaps required by @selected No, you need to emerge --deselect i3-gaps.