KDE 5 is in the tree, it's called KDE Frameworks 5. A quick heads-up to anyone who runs into what I just had. It all started with this incompatible USE error:
emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "sys-auth/polkit-qt[qt5]". !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - sys-auth/polkit-qt-0.112.0-r1::gentoo (Change USE: +qt5) (dependency required by "kde-frameworks/kauth-5.13.0::gentoo[policykit]" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "kde-frameworks/kdelibs4support-5.13.0::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "kde-apps/kmix-15.08.0::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "kde-apps/kdemultimedia-meta-15.08.0::gentoo" [ebuild]) And that led into a long change of adding USE=qt5 to several packages, followed by portage's decision to upgrade to KDE 5, which I've decided to postpone for a bit. Most KDE5 packages are in a new category or renamed, but some -meta package names are re-used like this one: $ eix kdemultimedia-meta [U] kde-apps/kdemultimedia-meta Available versions: (4) 4.14.3 (5) (~)15.08.0 which portage obviously wants to upgrade, and cascades into a full KDE5 upgrade. To prevent this and stick with KDE 4 meanwhile, just specify the :4 slot for your kde packages in set files or in world, like so: kde-apps/kdemultimedia-meta:4 In my case I only had to do it for the -meta packages and all was good. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com