# emerge --ask qtbase These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ..... done! Dependency resolution took 11.30 s (backtrack: 1/20). [ebuild R ] dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2-r4 USE="accessibility* vulkan*" !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-qt/qtbase:6 (dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2-r4:6/6.7.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="X accessibility concurrent dbus gui icu libinput libproxy network nls opengl sql sqlite ssl udev vulkan wayland widgets xml (zstd) -brotli -cups -eglfs -evdev -gles2-only -gssapi -gtk -journald -mysql -oci8 -odbc -postgres -renderdoc -sctp -syslog -test -tslib" ABI_X86="(64)" pulled in by dev-qt/qtbase (Argument) (dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2-r4:6/6.7.2::gentoo, installed) USE="X concurrent dbus gui icu libinput libproxy network nls opengl sql sqlite ssl udev wayland widgets xml (zstd) -accessibility -brotli -cups -eglfs -evdev -gles2-only -gssapi -gtk -journald -mysql -oci8 -odbc -postgres -renderdoc -sctp -syslog -test -tslib -vulkan" ABI_X86="(64)" pulled in by ~dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2:6[accessibility=,gui,opengl,vulkan=,wayland] required by (dev-qt/qtwayland-6.7.2-r3:6/6.7.2::gentoo, installed) USE="-accessibility -compositor -qml -test -vulkan" ABI_X86="(64)" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ~dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2:6[accessibility=,gui,network=,opengl=,sql?,ssl?,vulkan=,widgets=] required by (dev-qt/qtdeclarative-6.7.2:6/6.7.2::gentoo, installed) USE="jit network opengl sql ssl widgets -accessibility -qmlls -svg -vulkan" ABI_X86="(64)" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ~dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2:6[gui,network,opengl=,vulkan=,widgets] required by (dev-qt/qtmultimedia-6.7.2-r2:6/6.7.2::gentoo, installed) USE="X alsa ffmpeg opengl qml -eglfs -gstreamer -pulseaudio -test -v4l -vaapi -vulkan" ABI_X86="(64)" ^^^^^^^ ~dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2:6[concurrent,gui,opengl=,vulkan=,widgets] required by (dev-qt/qtquick3d-6.7.2:6/6.7.2::gentoo, installed) USE="opengl -test -vulkan" ABI_X86="(64)" ^^^^^^^ It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are impossible to satisfy simultaneously. If such a conflict exists in the dependencies of two different packages, then those packages can not be installed simultaneously. You may want to try a larger value of the --backtrack option, such as --backtrack=30, in order to see if that will solve this conflict automatically. For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. !!! The following installed packages are masked: - sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.15.83::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.