chaza@Mars ~ $ sudo emerge -av --depclean *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is *** WARNING *** recommended to use a tool such as `revdep-rebuild` (from *** WARNING *** app-portage/gentoolkit) in order to detect such breakage. *** WARNING *** *** WARNING *** Also study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious *** WARNING *** mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always *** WARNING *** be kept. They can be manually added to this set with *** WARNING *** `emerge --noreplace `. *** WARNING *** *** WARNING *** As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages *** WARNING *** unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a *** WARNING *** consequence, it is often necessary to run *** WARNING *** `emerge --update --deep world` prior to depclean. Calculating dependencies ... done! Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not being installed: >=media-libs/x264-svn-20061014 required by media-libs/libquicktime-0.9.9-r1 Have you forgotten to run `emerge --update --deep world` prior to depclean? chaza@Mars ~ $ sudo emerge -tavuD world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies I !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all !!! masked or don't exist: www-apps/phpBB app-cdr/simplecdrx ... done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB Nothing to merge; would you like to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] Exiting on signal 2