kde-plasma/kscreenlocker and old version of kde-plasma/plasma-workspace block kde-base/kdebase-pam:4, but all ebuilds of kde-base/kdebase-pam actually have slot "0", so blocker is not working. $ grep '![^[:space:]]*kde-base/kdebase-pam' */*/*.ebuild kde-plasma/kscreenlocker/kscreenlocker-5.5.2.ebuild: !kde-base/kdebase-pam:4 kde-plasma/kscreenlocker/kscreenlocker-5.5.3.ebuild: !kde-base/kdebase-pam:4 kde-plasma/kscreenlocker/kscreenlocker-5.5.4.ebuild: !kde-base/kdebase-pam:4 kde-plasma/plasma-workspace/plasma-workspace-5.4.3-r1.ebuild: !kde-base/kdebase-pam:4 $ grep SLOT= kde-base/kdebase-pam/*.ebuild SLOT="0" $ This typo in blocker was introduced in: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/commit/?id=7bf4c3b3b8cedd4960c163eccac57eb55883ab96
Thanks, fixed in git by Andreas. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d917c4295de4b7ac934fb0bb0175eadded772efa https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7c78300529249e425d20e3faac99b5c3e9a33f56