instead of having a bunch of instructions in a page for users to switch profile (sometimes they have bugs, I still did not manage to upgrade my Athlon 64 machine to the 2005.0 profile), we could have a single portagre command to do the switch, like "portage --update-profile 2005.0". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.wait for a new release 2.hope that no special instructions exist 3.find the upgrade instrucions (with or without special steps) in the website 4.do the upgrade (if no bugs block your way) Actual Results: manual upgrade Expected Results: portage --update-profile 2005.0 note that it is an update-profile, not upgrade-profile, there may be sme wicked mind that may want to downgrade its profile. this may be supported or not.
This is against the philosophy of emerge. Emerge does not alter any configuration files and leaves that entirely up to the user. Seeing the /etc/make.profile link is a configuration file, it is out of emerge's domain. Your request will probably be handled by gui tools as they come about.