Trouble upgrading system

[voncloft]

I have uninstalled both baloo and nepomuk from my system yet portage insists that the two can not exist and that nepomuk is blocking baloo....any advice

I have tried sudo emerge - C nepomuk baloo ...... and a sudo emerge @preserved-rebuild.......keeps giving me errors

tried to use -baloo in my make.conf file and even masking the baloo so nepomuk would update

[jburns]

Mask nepomuk. baloo replaces nepomuk.

[voncloft]

[The Doctor]

This is why it is generally a bad idea to mix stable, unstable and overlays. The results are unpredictable. I would first try emerge -auvND --backtrack=42 world or even larger values for backtrack to see if portage can work it out.

If you want to remove the overlay completely the easiest approach is to use eix if you have it installed (if not I recommend it. It is a handy tool). Simply use something like emerge -aC $(eix -I* --format '<installedversions:EQNAMEVERSION>' --in-overlay foo) where foo is whatever overlay you where using. Once that finishes emerge back anything you want (like KDE). You should probably do this from a different WM like twm with xterm (emerge -1 twm xterm) so that removing the programs doesn't case your session to become unstable.
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Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box.

[jburns]

You could build kde-base/systemsettings with the -nepomuk USE flag. You should also mask kde-base/systemsettings-4.11.49.9999::kde or remove the kde overlay. Once you get kde updated you could re-enable using nepomuk.