on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckinnon@(protected)
> On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> > > This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me
> > > off as useful important stuff just *goes away*
> >
> > I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have
> > found out easily all the available profiles by doing "eselect profile
> > list":
> >
> > # eselect profile list
> > Available profile symlink targets:
>
> Fair enough, except that I maintain make.profile manually using ln. Same
> with /usr/src/linux. And I've been doing that since my first install
> and have never needed to look for a front end tool that can replace one
> simple command with one simple command.
>
> In fact, I didn't even know about this feature of eselect till 5 minutes
> ago. So now there are two useful and important things that were not
> communicated to users.
>

OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0 (I don't even have a
2008.0 -- maybe I need to sync)? Will it unmaks useful packages or
someting?

Thanks.

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