revdep-rebuild -X --soname libqt-mt.so.3 -p Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild Environment mismatch from previous run, deleting temporary files... Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries using libqt-mt.so.3 will be emerged. Collecting system binaries and libraries... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files) Checking dynamic linking... found /usr/kde/3.4/lib/libqtmcop.so.1.0.0 found /usr/qt/3/bin/assistant found /usr/qt/3/bin/designer found /usr/qt/3/bin/linguist found /usr/qt/3/bin/lrelease found /usr/qt/3/bin/lupdate found /usr/qt/3/bin/msg2qm found /usr/qt/3/bin/qm2ts found /usr/qt/3/bin/qtconfig found /usr/qt/3/bin/uic found /usr/qt/3/lib/libqui.so.1.0.0 done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild_af85ec6a.3_rebuild) Assigning files to packages... /usr/kde/3.4/lib/libqtmcop.so.1.0.0 -> kde-base/arts /usr/qt/3/bin/assistant -> x11-libs/qt /usr/qt/3/bin/designer -> x11-libs/qt /usr/qt/3/bin/linguist -> x11-libs/qt /usr/qt/3/bin/lrelease -> x11-libs/qt /usr/qt/3/bin/lupdate -> x11-libs/qt /usr/qt/3/bin/msg2qm -> x11-libs/qt /usr/qt/3/bin/qm2ts -> x11-libs/qt /usr/qt/3/bin/qtconfig -> x11-libs/qt /usr/qt/3/bin/uic -> x11-libs/qt /usr/qt/3/lib/libqui.so.1.0.0 -> x11-libs/qt done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild_af85ec6a.4_packages_raw, /root/.revdep-rebuild_af85ec6a.4_package_owners) Cleaning list of packages to rebuild... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild_af85ec6a.4_packages) Assigning packages to ebuilds... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild_af85ec6a.4_ebuilds) Evaluating package order... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild_af85ec6a.5_order) All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot -p =x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 =kde-base/arts-3.4.3 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 USE="mysql* -cups*" [ebuild R ] kde-base/arts-3.4.3 Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run revdep-rebuild.