stkn@laptop ~ $ emerge -p koffice These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] app-text/wv2-0.2.2 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libpqxx-2.5.1 [ebuild N ] app-office/koffice-1.4.1-r1 stkn@laptop ~ $ emerge -p koffice wv2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] app-text/wv2-0.2.2 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libpqxx-2.5.1 [ebuild N ] app-office/koffice-1.4.1-r1