User:Sam/Portage help/Blockers

If your blocker isn't listed here, there's a very good chance it's to do with world file pollution: Maintaining a Gentoo system#World file hygiene.

xwayland, xorg-server, and libxcvt
Manifests as:

Solution
Portage needs a nudge to consider instead given it's supported by e.g. :

That is, run (need  to avoid adding libxcvt to world file)

jack-connection-kit, virtual/jack
Manifests as:

Note that in this case, given is currently installed with ABI_X86="32 64", if switching to jack2, we need it enabled for jack2 as well.

But even when making this change, Portage is still sometimes confused:

In such cases, try adding a package.mask entry for to help/nudge Portage's dependency resolution:

libcrypt and glibc
See Project:Toolchain/libcrypt_implementation.