[gentoo-user] /var/db gone: possible opportunity to switch profile

[Francisco Ares]

Hi All,

I have managed to delete /var/db. I know this was a very stupid thing to be
done, but now it is done and /var/db is gone for good.

Well, that is a good opportunity to have everything built again, time to try
new CFLAGS, and so on.

But there is a circular dependency that I do not know how to get rid of:
"glibc" and "gcc" depend on each other. They are both here, but portage does
not know that.

How am I supposed to go on?

By the way, I have a Pentium Core 2 Quad and I am using a "x86" profile. How
would I switch to a "amd64" ? As far as I know, my processor is capable of
this.

Thanks
Francisco
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