From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EeaVm-0003XY-Fm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:56:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAMFtEAq023478; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:55:14 GMT Received: from smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAMFoibt007428 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:50:45 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id jAMFoseX009580 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:50:54 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:49:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20051122152649.GA19886@dmz.brixandersen.dk> References: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> <1132672214.27288.14.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20051122152649.GA19886@dmz.brixandersen.dk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Ry9aTxvvxb75IxNa58Cb" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:49:36 -0500 Message-Id: <1132674577.27288.27.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 2.4.1 X-Archives-Salt: 35af4d7f-7189-469a-be1b-a9dfb5db2eb1 X-Archives-Hash: 332d4f8b03223e78465488c0f0bf68ba --=-Ry9aTxvvxb75IxNa58Cb Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 th= e > > stages to include a complete /var/db before 2005.0's release. They tak= e > > longer to use for installation, and give you exactly 0 advantages over = a > > stage3 that cannot be done with a stage3 tarball itself. >=20 > 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. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-Ry9aTxvvxb75IxNa58Cb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDgz4QkT4lNIS36YERAvdnAJsHKf+vVEDW3z2OntPqk0Xlhkg+7QCeI2wI Q7BcR9hPQLpky/kP3/KUrIc= =duqL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Ry9aTxvvxb75IxNa58Cb-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list