On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 16:26 +0100, Marc Hildebrand wrote:
> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> [..]
> > Now, on the topic of the tarballs.
> > 
> > Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2
> > tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball.
> > 
> 
> Answer: Download it in less than 10 minutes.

I'd love to see you do the same with a stage1 tarball + all the
distfiles you'll need to go from stage1 to stage3.

In case you're wondering, it's more than the size of a stage3 tarball,
by quite a bit.

> The question of interest is: Will we keep changing things without a GLEP 
> that should *never* be touched without one?

Since when is this GLEP material?

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux