I hope this hasn't been asked before (my searches have returned nil though): Prior to kits deployment, I used Intel's math kernel library via the science overlay's ebuild (sci-libs/mkl-11.3.2.181). With the current master branch of science-kit, the latest version is substantially older:
# eix mkl -Ic
[?] sci-libs/mkl [1] (11.3.2.181[?]@06/16/2017 -> (~)10.0.5.025-r1^ms): Intel(R) Math Kernel Library: linear algebra, fft, math functions
[1] "science-kit" /var/git/meta-repo/kits/science-kit
So mkl-10.0.5.025-r1 is the most recent version available on the master branch. But this ebuild has