if your by a river in florida chances yer in a swamp, or near a sink
hole, not a good place to lay the foundation of your house

On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 14:49, Felipe Ghellar wrote:

> Nicholas Hockey wrote:
> > well there is a reason that the base system is set up a certain way, 
> > it's so that when you do run the bootstrap it will compile, in Linux 
> > there is no real "base system" as there is in freebsd, so the only 
> > logical way around this is to build a good foundation, which is well 
> > known to build a complete system, at the sacrifice of time.
> 
> Ok, let's simulate the installation process...
> 
> 1) I preapare everything according to the Install Guide
> 2) I set up my make.conf the way I want it, with ~x86
> 3) I run bootstrap.sh; it ignores my "unstable" choice and builds a 
> "stable" base system
> 4) I run emerge system and then complete the installation
> 5) later, I run emerge --sync and emerge -u --deep system; it now 
> follows my "unstable" choice and brings in all those packages 
> bootstrap.sh ignored
> 
> The net result is just that "sacrifice of time" you mentioned...
> 
> 
> > or they could do it your way, by the way i have some cheap land in 
> > Florida, right next to the river, i'll sell it to you, by your standards 
> > it should be a great place to build a house
> > 
> > (sorry if this sounds rude i just thought this would be a good comparison)
> 
> Sorry, I don't get your point... (and I did't take it as rude)
> 
> Felipe Ghellar

-- 
Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) <tilt@bluecherry.net>
Unix Administrator
Encrypted E-Mail is preferred..
-------------------------------------------------------------------- 
GnuPG KeyID 4EDE2B84
Key fingerprint = B916 6032 BE3D 490D 2A08  F1BC 948A A4C1 4EDE 2B84
HKP: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4EDE2B84
LDAP: gpg --keyserver ldap://keyserver.pgp.com --recv-keys 4EDE2B84
--------------------------------------------------------------------