On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 12:16 +0100, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I know it must be a simple thing, but I couldn't get out of this.
> Yesterday I did a --sync to upgrade the system.
> When launching emerge I get the following error:
> 
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-apps/dbus-0.93" have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
> - sys-apps/dbus-0.95 (masked by: package.mask)
> # Steev Klimaszewski <steev@gentoo.org> (18 Aug 2006)
> # waiting for new mono bindings and some testing
> 
> - sys-apps/dbus-0.94 (masked by: package.mask)
> 
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
> refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> (dependency required by "x11-libs/qt-4.2.1-r1" [ebuild])
> 
> And that's ok. So, in order to upgrade anyway I'm going to mask
> qt-4.2.1-r1 by adding
> =x11-libs/qt-4.2.1-r1
> in my package.mask. Right? Sadly emerge is still blocking because of
> the same exact error.
> What did I do wrong?
> 

Typically, that means you have qt unmasked.  The unmask trump the mask,
always.  You need to modify your unmask to have >=11-libs/qt-4.2.1 or
something similar, or unmask dbus.

Daniel