On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 16:26 +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:10:14AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > Personally, I would like to see stage1 and stage2 go away completely.
> > They serve no real purpose anymore after the changes we have made to the
> > stages to include a complete /var/db before 2005.0's release.  They take
> > longer to use for installation, and give you exactly 0 advantages over a
> > stage3 that cannot be done with a stage3 tarball itself.
> 
> Perhaps we should just document these facts better? Write a news item
> explaining the reasons behind removing stage1/2 instructions from our
> handbooks - and explain _why_ stage1 and 2 are not really better than
> a stage3 install + bootstrap.sh + emerge -e world. Perhaps also add a
> small note about this to the handbook.

Well, the information was in the bug linked with the GWN article, along
with also in the gentoo-docs mailing list archive that was posted.

> If our users are explained why stage1/2 installs don't give any
> benefits over a stage3 install, I trust them to aknowledge this fact.

Your faith is much stronger than mine.

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