first things first i did a emerge --depclean and it removed kde-base/nepomuk-4.4.0 which i thought was kinda odd. After emerge was done doing its dance and i restarted my kde session strigi wasent working because it needs nepomuk. To cut it short i would guess when a user emerges strigi he/she would expect a working setup, so in this case that would mean pulling in kde-base/nepomuk. (i could be wrong about kde policies and stuff). On a side note kde-pim (kmail kontact agrekator) works just fine, though i get a huge warning that nepomuk isnt working correctly and some features is disabled. running ~amd64 if there should be any doubt and using kde-4.4.0 Reproducible: Always emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r7-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E6750_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:45:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p2 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4, 4.4.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.32 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/usr/net_portage" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --jobs 3 --load-average 6" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/net_portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt custom-cflags cxx dbus dri dvd fortran gdbm gpm hal iconv kde lzma minimal mmx mmxext modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre pppd qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 sysfs tcpd theora threads truetype unicode vorbis x264 xcb xinerama xorg xscreensaver zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ice1724" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
What.. what? I have problems with understanding what you're trying to say here. kde-base/nepomuk is governed by semantic-desktop USE flag and having it disabled was certainly the cause for nepomuk being picked by --depclean in your case. It's app-misc/strigi that is dependency of kde-base/nepomuk - hence it's obvious it can't be done the other way around like you suggest.
