From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Difux-0000qy-NL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:59:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5FLvlYR027040; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:57:47 GMT Received: from smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5FLtPoI017572 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:55:25 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j5FLuZl8001086 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:56:36 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:55:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200506151738.53023.mcummings@gentoo.org> References: <200506151738.53023.mcummings@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-r56PYJ1U9pWFaOGfepDm" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:55:44 -0400 Message-Id: <1118872545.14164.45.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 X-Archives-Salt: b77f035f-5fea-440f-8ac7-3b04ad2179f8 X-Archives-Hash: 9164c6847e6f54dced32d525540bc04d --=-r56PYJ1U9pWFaOGfepDm Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:38 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > On Wednesday 15 June 2005 13:26, Dennis Allison wrote: > > There is a learning curve, but on the whole gentoo is my distribution o= f > > choice. You may find it helpful to do a stage3 installation before you > > attempt a stage1 installation. Vanilla stage3 installations take much > > less time and give you the opportunity to learn the process. >=20 > (some of us not involved with catalyst type builds still start with stage= 3=20 > most times ;) Those of us definitely involved with catalyst type builds always start with a stage3, since it saves a lot of time and the end result is no different once you've made your customizations and run an "emerge -e world". Besides, we spend enough time building from stage1 over and over and over again for each release. Why do it again on our machines when we install? --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-r56PYJ1U9pWFaOGfepDm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCsKPgkT4lNIS36YERAtFMAJ9t/+LWDqzmLbwqArSEmWa/ZC86RgCbBZA3 ZGJKcjWjuGgIHOPYYVAJKCE= =tSMG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-r56PYJ1U9pWFaOGfepDm-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list