According to my local portage mirror, kipi-plugins-1.9.0 is currently ~x86. There's probably a stray line in your /etc/portage/package.keywords which unmasks kipi-plugins-1.9.0. The latest stable is kipi-plugins-1.2.0-r3 which is happy with libkexiv2-4.4.5-r1, which in turn is stable for x86.
-rz > See output below. I understand what this is telling me. However, the > issue is if I unmask libkexiv2 and kipi-plugins, I get further messages > about some other kde package that is masked by ~x86 keyword. And this > goes on continuously. > > If I do emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-first world, the second > set of output is provided and this causes other problems - for instance, > there are a whole whack of packages that depend on gettext. > > I haven't been able to update my system in well over a month. I keep > hoping a sync will somehow miraculously correct my problem. > > Anyone have any ideas how to get around this? > > penguinchick ~ # emerge --pretend --update --deep world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=kde-base/libkexiv2-4.5[aqua=]" > have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > request: > - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.6.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) > - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.6.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) > - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.5.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) > > (dependency required by "media-plugins/kipi-plugins-1.9.0" [ebuild]) > (dependency required by "@selected") > (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) > For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge > man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > penguinchick ~ # emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-first world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > !!! One or more packages have been dropped due to > !!! masking or unsatisfied dependencies: > > (sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) > (dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1, ebuild scheduled for merge) > (dev-vcs/git-1.7.3.4-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) > > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.44 [2.4.43] > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/bison-2.4.2 [2.4.1] > [ebuild U ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.80 [0.71] > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-8.7 [8.5] > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/pam-1.1.3 [1.1.1-r2]
