A good idea, but I've only experienced major headaches when switching between distros. I copied everything I needed off the machine in question, and burned everything down to the point of repartitioning the hard drives.
Yes, that's what I did too. What I tried to say was that I didn't start from a stage1 or stage2 build (which involves a lot of first-time compiling). I installed a GRP (which contains only pre-compiled packages) so that my new system would be usable as soon as possible (I was installing on my main machine), and only afterward I did an "emerge sync; emerge -UDpv system; emerge -UDpv world" to compile everything to the latest versions from source.
--Diego
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