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 1EeeAl-0006sD-Be for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:51:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAMJoUmE015803; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:50:30 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 jAMJmbHa032353 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:48:38 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 jAMJmdqx002651 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:48:41 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:47:22 -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: <20051122190426.GD16984@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> References: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> <438330E1.2000804@gentoo.org> <1132672527.27288.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20051122180349.GC16984@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <20051122181747.27c484b3@snowdrop.home> <20051122190426.GD16984@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-WNwET/UNuqn2RVZGcijG" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:47:22 -0500 Message-Id: <1132688842.27288.83.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: 2fb7686b-cb10-4199-aa4e-5e9b26dd4e2e X-Archives-Hash: 70cbe3290557deb50e48d517fd11a090 --=-WNwET/UNuqn2RVZGcijG Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 13:04 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: > In any event, I don't mind the handbook changes, although I'd perhaps > like to see the FAQ for starting from a stage 1 fleshed out a tad, such > as including a paragraph of why one might not want to do that. Perhaps > steal from whomever posted a treatise on the issue some time ago (either > rac or avenj, I don't remember which)? rac... though most of his arguments are invalid once we updated the stages. His arguments were that we should always use stage3 because stages 1 and 2 caused problems, which they did. These problems have been resolved by making the stages fuller. However, in doing so, we reduced the legitimate need for having these stages to almost nothing. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-WNwET/UNuqn2RVZGcijG 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) iD8DBQBDg3XJkT4lNIS36YERAgF2AJ47eDeMwSutN7RMW0//QO14JXx0ewCeJ3Aw dXzU7lxeR/sY0D9p61oxfKc= =R9FI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-WNwET/UNuqn2RVZGcijG-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list