*** emerging by path is broken and may not always work!!!
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies
*** You are emerging a masked package. It is MUCH better to use
*** /etc/portage/package.* to accomplish this. See portage(5) man
*** page for details.
>>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
Continuing... in: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
...done!
[ebuild N ] net-im/skype-0.92.0.2 +arts +esd +qt 4,061 kB