These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=kde-base/kate-4.0.2:kde-4" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - kde-base/kate-4.0.2 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Ingmar Vanhassel (16 Jan 2008) # Mask KDE 4.0.0 for testing. This release of KDE 4 will not be unmasked. # KDE 4 guide: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4.xml For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by "kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.2" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for kde-base/kde-meta !!! Depgraph creation failed.