Neil, thanks for help. You gave me answers on all my questions :)
Thursday, May 22, 2008, 12:11:41 PM, Neil wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:38:52 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote: >> > I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no >> > problems, >> >> but then you switched back to 2007? > No, I'm still running 2008.0. > >> > but a profile isn't much more than a collection of USE flags, so >> > installing with 2007.0 and switching later is simple. >> >> I'm agree with you, but it may require recompiling mostly all >> installed software. Well, it's not a really big problem anyway. > It doesn't. Switching profiles mainly changes a few default USE flags. > Only a few packages are recompiled by emerge --newuse and none of those > are "required". The most you have customised your USE flags, the less > will be changed by the profile switch. >> I'd want to use 2008 beta2 if it's stable enough. > There is no beta profile. The install discs based on 2008.0 are still in > beta, but the profiles are plain 2008.0. It's really no big deal whether > you use an 07 or 08 profile. -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
