$ emerge -puvD world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies / !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-1.1.0" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-1.2.0 (masked by: missing keyword) - x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-1.2.2 (masked by: missing keyword) - x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-1.2.1 (masked by: missing keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. !!! Problem resolving dependencies for sys-apps/portage !!! Depgraph creation failed. $ emerge -uvNDp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-python/pyxmms-2.02". (dependency required by "media-sound/ipodder-2.0_rc4" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-sound/ipodder !!! Depgraph creation failed.