I've been able to do so; basically I switched over to the standard 
profile, disabled selinux in the kernel, and re-emerged system for new 
use flags. There were some other details but overall the process was 
pretty painless, anyone ambitious enough to configure a hardened system 
can probably handle the switch without much problem. Not that I'm 
encouraging you to drop hardened (especially on a laptop that could be 
exposed to random wifi networks ;-)

Grant wrote, On 12/23/08 16:23:
> Can I switch my laptop's profile from a hardened one to a non-hardened
> one?  I thought this was impossible without a complete reinstall but
> folks on the gentoo-user list seem to think it's not a problem.
>
> - Grant
>
>