On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 20:14 +0200, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> bootstrap - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during
> original system bootstrapping [make stage2]
> build - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used for
> creating build images and the first half of bootstrapping [make stage1]

> It's probably a big pain to do this.

Changing build and bootstrap would require changes to a few packages in
system, but also to catalyst.  It would completely break all versions of
catalyst prior to the "fixed" version for stage building.

Basically, we'd have to support both for at least a little while until
we got all of the older versions of catalyst out of use/support.  I'd
need to stabilize catalyst 2.x and remove 1.x, at minimum.

It could be done, I just don't think the amount of work required for
what it otherwise a cosmetic change to be worth it.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation