Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] >=app-text/tetex-3.0 (is blocking dev-tex/xkeyval-2.4-r1, dev-tex/latex-beamer-3.06-r1, dev-tex/xcolor-2.00-r1, dev-tex/pgf-1.01) [ebuild N ] dev-tex/latex-beamer-3.06-r1 USE="emacs" 2,576 kB [ebuild N ] dev-tex/pgf-1.01 2,127 kB [ebuild N ] dev-tex/xkeyval-2.4-r1 438 kB [ebuild N ] dev-tex/xcolor-2.00-r1 455 kB Total size of downloads: 5,598 kB !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!! at the same time on the same system. For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked If I try to deblock the situation, emerge tries then to install tetex again.
echo ">=app-text/tetex-3.0" >> /etc/portage/package.mask emerge -C \>=app-text/tetex-3.0; emerge latex-beamer *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94815 ***