I have kde-base/kdm-3.5.7-r3 installed while not After trying to login using kdm the session is killed and the following in logged in ~/.xsession-errors: /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/Xsession: line 59: /usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde: No such file or directory /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/Xsession: line 59: exec: /usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde: cannot execute: No such file or directory Obviously, kde-base/kdm should force installation of kde-base/kdebase-startkde.
This is intentional, for the reasoning see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81707#c1 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 81707 ***