On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:48 AM n952162 <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2020-06-12 16:42, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 12 June 2020 16:38:28 CEST, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Perhaps I misunderstand this, but isn't it as simple as booting off a > >> LiveCD/ > >> USB, chrooting, changing profiles, cleaning up world file and letting > >> rip with > >> a full 'emerge -e' @system, followed by @world for good measure? > > It might work when moving fron 13.0 to 17.0. > > But 17.1 required a seperate tool that actually migrated libraries around > > the filesystem. > > > Is there a page which details the differences or features of each profile? >
Not that I'm aware of. Keep in mind that the numbered profiles aren't intended to be "choices" for a user to pick between. It is more about version control to allow major changes to be made to the distro, so that if any kind of migration is necessary your system won't break in terrible ways because different packages are configured differently depending on when they were installed. You should always use the latest profile version, and you should always follow the news instructions when changing them. -- Rich
