On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > > > This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me > > > > off as useful important stuff just *goes away* > > > > > > I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have > > > found out easily all the available profiles by doing "eselect profile > > > list": > > > > > > # eselect profile list > > > Available profile symlink targets: > > > > Fair enough, except that I maintain make.profile manually using ln. Same > > with /usr/src/linux. And I've been doing that since my first install > > and have never needed to look for a front end tool that can replace one > > simple command with one simple command. > > > > In fact, I didn't even know about this feature of eselect till 5 minutes > > ago. So now there are two useful and important things that were not > > communicated to users. > > > > OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0 (I don't even have a > 2008.0 -- maybe I need to sync)? Will it unmaks useful packages or > someting? > > Thanks. >
I was wondering that myself. I suspect you can change the profile and then look at something like emerge -pvDuN world and see what it would do. I use eselect but didn't know about this profile option. Nice. - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
