emerge -pvuD world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-db/mysql-5.0*" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-db/mysql-5.0.34 (masked by: package.mask, package.mask, package.mask) - dev-db/mysql-5.0.26-r2 (masked by: package.mask, package.mask, package.mask) - dev-db/mysql-5.0.32 (masked by: package.mask, package.mask, package.mask) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by "net-ftp/proftpd-1.3.1_rc2" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-ftp/proftpd !!! Depgraph creation failed. mysql -V mysql Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23.58, for pc-linux-gnu (i686)