Hi, with USE="fallback", gnome-base/gnome-3.8.0 depends on gnome-applets as well as gnome-core-apps. However, gnome-core-apps block gnome-applets. That doesn't seem to workout. Reproducible: Always
+ 02 Oct 2013; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> gnome-3.8.0.ebuild: + Waiting for a newer release ready to be used with gnome-panel-3.8 and 3.8 + ecosystem (#486750 by Sven) +