Wonderful world of new dists..

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   Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:02:26 -0500
   From: "Thomas Charron" <twaffle at gmail.com>

     So which guru is going to tell me which flavor magical pixie dust to
   sprinkle where, whilst I waste my time trying to find the solution myself.

     Thomas

Guru?  Maybe not.  But pixie dust?  That I migt be able to manage. ;)
Try merging your targets individually, instead of all at one shot in a
single merge---that way the library version(s) *expected* by the
ebuild might be in place.  In other words, delay (or don't) merging
kopete.

If that's not possible (because, for instance, kopete is a *DEPEND),
look for a USE flag that might cause the DEP on kopete to go away.  If
that doesn't help, copy the ebuild (or relevant eclass) to your
PORTDIR_OVERLAY tree (you have one, right?) and edit the braindead
function that tests for compatible libraries.

If none of the these work, try putting "-kde" from your USE
setting---like I do---and this problem should go away. :P