qt-3.2.2-r1.ebuild has this dependency on kdelibs, which is incorrect: DEPEND="... !<kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 !< is not a proper portage operation and it produces this output (note the < sign before the kde-base/kdelibs): Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] <kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 (from pkg x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1) [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1 [3.1.2-r4] +cups -nas +postgres +opengl +mysql -odbc +gif -doc Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -uU qt -pv Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-1.0, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.5-r9, 2.4.22-aa1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-aa1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 1900+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv arts berkdb cdr esd gdbm gif gnome-libs gphoto2 gtk imlib java kde libwww motif mozilla mysql nls oggvorbis opengl pam perl png postgres python qt readline scanner sdl slang ssl svga tcpd tiff X -apache2 curl dga dvd fbcon foomaticdb gd gphoto imap lirc mad matrox mbox md5sum mozaccess mozcalendar mozinterfaceinfo moznoirc mozp3p mozsvg neXt pda ppds samba sse transcode usb xface xinerama xvid zlib -gpm dv"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28948 ***