root@spock ~ # emerge -uDp world --tree These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r2" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22-r1 (masked by: package.mask) - sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 (masked by: package.mask) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook. !!! (dependency required by "sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r1" [ebuild]) !!! Problem with ebuild sys-apps/man-pages-2.02 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed.