I had the same problem this morning. Adding >=app-crypt/qca-2.0.0-r2 to /etc/portage/package.mask solved it for me, since kopete wanted qca and qca-2 wanted qt4.
Dominic On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:09:04 +0000 Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > After reading a post here today I decided to investigate why I have several > qt-4.4.2 packages on this workstation, when I don't have kde-4. It turns > out that the SSL USE flag causes kopete-3.5.9 to pull in 14 qt-4.4.2 > packages. This strikes me as somewhat odd. > > For the moment I've specified kopete -ssl in portage.use and removed all the > qt-4 packages. > > Does anyone here know why we have this dependency of a kde-3 package on > qt-4? > > -- > Rgds > Peter