celestial evdev-driver-0.2 # emerge --pretend --update kdebase These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.16-r3 [5.0.16-r2] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-r2 [2.1.21-r1] [ebuild NS ] kde-base/arts-3.5.0 [ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0