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@ 2002-04-01 12:52 Thilo Bangert
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From: Thilo Bangert @ 2002-04-01 12:52 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi,

i remeber something about profiles etc...

During the update process i realized how the new profile stuff could 
work. If I understand correctly, then the world file in /var/cache/edb 
is "just" the "world" profile, containing the whole system.

I'd be cool if one can make additional profiles, fx. the profile "X", 
which has x11-base/xfree and kde-base
then you can specify
# emerge --update X

wait a couple hours and have the newest version of X installed without 
having touched the rest of the system.

This is especially handy, when installing a number of systems with the 
same packages. Create a profile, copy the new profile to /var/cache/edb 
on the new machine and after you emerged the system do
#emerge <profile>
and ready you are...

what is the status of that?

the new portage is GREAT!

-- 
regards
Thilo



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