On Tuesday 09 January 2007 17:20, Ryan Sims wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Piotr Jaroszyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 16:27, Einar S. Idsø wrote:
> > > Some further info: I just remembered that I also changed the symlink
> > > for /etc/make.profile. For some reason I changed it to point to
> > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0, which doesn't seem
> > > right... I suppose I should rather have used
> > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1/(desktop|server)?
> > >
> > > Did I just stupidly break my system?
> >
> > You have switched to non-multilib profile... Switch it back asap and
> > reemerge whatever you emerged on invalid profile.
>
> Is that possible?
>
> from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#multilib :
> "Currently you cannot switch from a no-multilib to a multilib-enabled
> profile, so think over your decision twice before you use the
> no-multilib profile."

The reason it's not possible is because it breaks the system.
portage does not prevent you from changing to an incompatible profile.

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