Emerge @world conflicts after deleting package.keywords.

[michaelp]

Hi, I tried to downgrade plasma and I deleted my package.keywords assuming that the system will fix itself.

The process turned out to be more complicated than I thought, so I decided to revert the change. I unmasked the latest plasma-meta and accepted all the proposed keywords. There were some conflicts which I was able to bypass using `--backtrack=30`.

Now when I run `emerge --update --deep --newuse @world` I get a bunch of conflict errors, which I can always bypass using `--backtrack 30`. Then it tells me that the system is up to date.

I uploaded the log which shows conflict errors here:

https://bpaste.net/show/f13ee5ed213b

And here's my emerge --info:

http://bpaste.net/show/73a87e97eac1

I reviewed the Troubleshooting section on Gentoo wiki, but upgrading packages manually did not help since I already have the higher version installed.

At this point I would be happy to get system back in working order even if it means rebuilding every package in the system.

[asturm]

You can't unmask the latest Plasma without also unmasking the latest Qt and Frameworks.

KDE overlay got you covered, simply pick the respective package.keywords files for kde-plasma and kde-frameworks:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/tree/Documentation/package.accept_keywords

[michaelp]

I'm assuming I did that when I was offered to make changes to package.keywords when I reinstalled plasma-meta.

Here's what my package.keywords looks like now: http://bpaste.net/show/0f4089b0f16f

I'm also using desktop/plasma profile:

[asturm]

You assume too much. (and I'm certainly not looking through a 100+ lines keywords file when there is a ready solution available)

I would also recommend to emerge --sync so you don't spend unnecessary cpu time on old KDE Plasma 5.12.1.