Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 12/04/2017 12:48 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> On 12/03/2017 03:30 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> 
>> However, you can delay switching to the new profile for a while.
> 
> For how long?
> 
> eselect news item tells me:
> 
> "Please migrate away from the 13.0 profiles within the six weeks after
> GCC 6.4.0 has been stabilized on your architecture. The 13.0 profiles
> will be deprecated then and removed in half a year."
> 

Once the profile is deprecated (not yet), you've got six months.

Keep in mind that a profile isn't actually all that complicated. It
consists mainly of a few small text files, and can likely be copied
locally just like you would with an ebuild.

You also aren't required to rebuild everything right now (although you
should, to get the PIE/SSP protection!). You can pause your "emerge -e
@world" at any point, and resume it during off-hours or a slow period.
So long as you don't need to build anything else in the meantime, you
can take as long as you want.