Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

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Subject:	Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Mark Knecht
Date:	25 Apr 2008

I was at my folks house earlier this week. My mom's machine was set up
quite a long time ago and hadn't been updated in at least a year -
maybe two. I wasn't even aware she was using Linux. I simply set up a
machine, gave her an account and walked away. she told me a few days
ago she was using it but was having some trouble with Firefox and
asked me to look at it.

I ran emerge --sync which ran correctly as far as I could tell at the
time. I then tried emerge -pvDuN system and was greeted with a message
about how the profile wasn't set and the system couldn't/wouldn't
perform an emerge. /etc/make.profile was pointing at a 2005 profile.
When I looked in at profiles that were available there were only 2006
& 2007 profiles.

Did this machine just get messed up over time and I didn't notice or
did emerge --sync remove the profile from the system thus breaking
everything?

Thanks,
Mark
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