On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, at 22:21, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > I will never ever run 32bit software again and would really like to have > a desktop-no-multilib profile, in sync with the regular desktop but simply > without the multilib goop. My server is running precisely as I want with > plain no-multilib, and I know I could just copy my USE flags over and > maintain my own "self-made-desktop" settings, but that would mean I'd lose > all the defaults and ongoing updates, which *are* kind of nice.
I think you should try creating a local custom combined profile. For example I needed to create a systemd + no-multilib profile. I called this custom profile "fturco" (my username, but of course you can choose any name). I created the /var/db/repos/fturco/profiles/fturco/parent file with the following lines: > ../../../gentoo/profiles/default/linux/amd64/17.1/systemd > ../../../gentoo/profiles/default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib /var/db/repos/fturco is the directory with my local custom gentoo repository. ../../../gentoo points to /var/db/repos/gentoo, which is the official gentoo repository. I also needed to create the /var/dotfiles/db/repos/fturco/profiles/profiles.desc file with the following line: > amd64 fturco stable At this point you can set your profile with eselect profile, and then update the system with: emerge -uDNav @world
