  We readdress the question of whether any universal upper bound exists on the
square mass m^2 of the lightest scalar around a supersymmetry breaking vacuum
in generic N=2 gauged supergravity theories for a given gravitino mass m_3/2
and cosmological constant V. We review the known bounds which apply to theories
with restricted matter content from a new perspective. We then extend these
results to theories with both hyper and vector multiplets and a gauging
involving only one generator, for which we show that such a bound exists for
both V>0 and V<0. We finally argue that there is no bound for the same theories
with a gauging involving two or more generators. These results imply that in
N=2 supergravity theories metastable de Sitter vacua with V<<m^2_3/2 can only
arise if at least two isometries are gauged, while those with V>>m^2_3/2 can
also arise when a single isometry is gauged.
