[gentoo-user] Re: Desktop-no-multilib profile - possible?

[Holger Hoffstätte]

Hey Francesco -

On 2/20/20 11:22 AM, Francesco Turco wrote:
> 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

I finally got around to trying this and just wanted to thank you for the detailed
instructions. Since I already had an overlay it was a breeze, and worked right away.
The only weird occurrence was a revdep-rebuild cycle thanks to go (of course !"§$% go)
keeping some glibc remnants in /lib alive with a cyclic dependency; this was easily
fixed by quickpkg/uninstall/reinstall.

No more 32bit! \o/

cheers,
Holger