bash-2.05b# emerge -Duva --newuse world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-libs/pam-0.78" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-libs/pam-0.78-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - sys-libs/pam-0.78 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) 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 "kde-base/kdebase-pam-5" [ebuild]) !!! Problem with ebuild kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.4.1 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed.