On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 03:40 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote:
> Pretty much work for a beginnner!

...and?

You're using a source-based distribution.  It is not designed for the
beginner insomuch as you have to perform maintenance tasks that would
otherwise be unnecessary in a binary-only distribution.

> And there's pretty much of experience needed.

Yes, there is.  There's also the ability to follow the directions given
by ebuilds when they're merged.

> Actually, the moment when there's an upgrade to glibc and gcc, than
> there's no advantage in taking a stage3 - the whole "upgrading the
> stage3"-thing will take as long as using a stage1.

Not quite.

> Why? because i have to upgrade glibc and gcc - and that is basically
> what bootstrap.sh does too.

...and headers, and portage, and baselayout, and binutils, and texinfo,
and zlib, and ncurses...

Something else that *everybody* seems to be missing is that the *first*
method in the GCC upgrading guide, which is the one that would apply
from a fresh-installed system, seems to be completely overlooked by all
the naysayers.  Funny how if someone actually read the entire document,
they'd see just how much of their own time they're wasting.

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