On Tuesday 19 December 2006 13:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:06:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > My desktop machine at home is still on 2005.0 profile and yet, it > > is a fully up to date x86 system. If I were to make it a 2006.1 > > profile, it's very unlikely that anything would change at all. > > In this case, I expect there would be changes. 2006.1 introduced > desktop and server sub-profiles, so 2006.1 itself contains a minimal > set of USE flags, only those used by both server ans desktop. Thus it > is possible that many of your packages would be rebuilt with an > emerge -uavDN world. On the other hand, if you switched to a > 2006.1/desktop profile, it is likely that very little would change, > except maybe a few default USE flags that you hardly use.
Interestingly enough, I looked into this a month back when I had to create a glibc 2.3 chroot for a proprietary database (much like a 32 bit chroot on an AMD64). I extended default_linux/x86 to create a new "minimal" profile, but before that had to figure out how the new desktop/server profiles were set up. It turns out that I had explicit USE flags for everything in desktop, so the net change to switching main profiles for me would be 0. Of course, all of this is terribly interesting and has absolutely nothing to do with the OPs question :-) alan -- [email protected] mailing list
