revdep-rebuild -p Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update will be emerged. Collecting system binaries and libraries... using existing /root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files. Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... using existing /root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath. Checking dynamic linking consistency... using existing /root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild. Assigning files to ebuilds... using existing /root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds. Evaluating package order... using existing /root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order. All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot -p =gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.18.3 =gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager-2.18.3 =app-office/gnucash-2.0.5 =gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.18.0-r2 =dev-python/gnome-python-desktop-2.18.0 =app-office/openoffice-2.3.0 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.18.3 [ebuild N ] app-office/gnucash-2.0.5 USE="nls -chipcard -debug -doc -hbci -ofx -quotes" [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.3.0 [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager-2.18.3 [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.18.0-r2 [ebuild R ] dev-python/gnome-python-desktop-2.18.0 Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run revdep-rebuild.