On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@(protected):
> On Friday 25 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > Thanks. I tried that and had some problem. don't remember at this
> > point what it was. Anyway, since it wasn't clear I could fix it in a
> > few minutes I brought the machine home with me so maybe this weekend
> > I can find some time to fire it up, fix the link, and get started on
> > updates. We'll see.
> >
> > I wish it didn't completely remove the profile but just gave you a
> > warning that you were using an outdated profile like it used to in
> > the old days.
>
> I remember needing a custom profile for something about 18 months ago. I
> don't have that machine any more, but I'm sure I put it in my personal
> overlay and it worked just fine. There's nothing special about a
> profile, it's just a directory with standard files in it and parent
> profiles. If you recreate it or get the old one out of an archive,
> store it any old arb place you feel like and symlink make.profile to it
>
Really I had only about 5 minutes to look at this. she asked me almost
as I was walking out the door to drive home. (My parents always do
things like that!) I hoped that I'd get lucky, emerge --sync, emerge
-DuN world and 6 hours later, when I got home, ssh in and see how much
got finished. It didn't work out so I just brought the machine back
with me.

This is not a big deal really and I was just sort of surprised that
emerge --sync would remove something that caused such a big ugly
message. I'm fine that it works that way and I have no problem fixing
the machine. This email was really more about my education than the
work.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Mark
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