I was hoping that this was a dev boo-boo and would work itself out in time, but it's been several days and it hasn't, so the problem must be on my end. See the following listing:
Calculating dependencies ...... . ....... done! [ebuild N ] sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 [ebuild U ] media-libs/libmikmod-3.2.0_beta2-r1 [3.1.11-r5] [ebuild N ] sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5 USE="X nls" [ebuild N ] sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5 USE="alsa -debug -networkmanager -ntp" VIDEO_CARDS="-intel -radeon" [blocks B ] sys-power/powermgmt-base ("sys-power/powermgmt-base" is blocking sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22', 'merge') pulled in by >=sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 required by ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5', 'merge') ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5', 'merge') pulled in by sys-power/pm-utils required by ('installed', '/', 'kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.3', 'nomerge') As you can see powermgmt-base is on the emerge list, as is pm-utils. I installed kde-meta because my mother-in-law is visiting and she likes kpatience and it didn't work anymore with kde-3.5. Now, how do I resolve this block?