Texlive in gentoo

I have always had problems with tex on my gentoo. There are two possibilities to get tex work: either install tetex, which is very old, or texlive, which is much newer. Unfortunately, when I installed texlive, I had problems installing some additional packages (e.g. tex4ht), because they claimed they depend on tetex, which is blocked by texlive. Now I found out where is the problem: there packages require virtual/latex, which requires one of several packages. Among others, there is a package texlive-latexrecommended. Although this package was installed in my system as a dependency of texlive, gentoo somehow did not see it when installing tex4ht. But after I executed emerge texlive-latexrecommended, everything was OK.