From the latest emerge -avtDuN world: [nomerge ] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.5-r1 USE="arts -debug hal -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -ldap -openexr samba -xinerama" [ebuild UD] sys-apps/dbus-0.62-r2 [1.0.2] USE="X -debug -doc gtk%* -mono% python%* qt3%* qt4%* (-selinux)" 0 kB I have dbus 1.0.x installed. Um... why is it downgrading? Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-tygris x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-tygris x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2500+ Last Sync: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:30:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages fixrpaths metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="en_US" LINGUAS="en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 3dnowex X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 bzlib cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint glut gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv idn imagemagick imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux lcms libg++ linguas_en live mad maildir matroska mbox mikmod mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nomotif nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc rtsp samba scanner sdl session slang softmmu spell spl sqlite ssl tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userland_GNU v4l video_cards_nvidia vorbis xml xml2 xorg xpm xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Because you didn't add dbus-qt3-old to package.keywords.
