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 1Eea6G-00002V-5H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:30:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAMFTMF6006477; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:29:22 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAMFQpNN020018 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:26:52 GMT Received: from 83.72.33.139.ip.tele2adsl.dk ([83.72.33.139] helo=dmz.brixandersen.dk) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1Eea2l-00060W-9f for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:26:51 +0000 Received: by dmz.brixandersen.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2B9B128183; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:26:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:26:49 +0100 From: Henrik Brix Andersen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation Message-ID: <20051122152649.GA19886@dmz.brixandersen.dk> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> <1132672214.27288.14.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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/04w6evG8XlLl3ft" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1132672214.27288.14.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-PGP-Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~brix/files/HenrikBrixAndersen.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 34e221a2-7551-450f-809c-e2d18e92fece X-Archives-Hash: f27a0a2eb4f6eb547d6367399f2aa0c1 --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. 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. Regards, Brix --=20 Henrik Brix Andersen Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: GnuPG signed iD8DBQFDgzi5v+Q4flTiePgRAgdLAJ4sl2Ng3xzriWF49gDi9VwH0ZjKcQCfZlP4 Bjq/pFudoAOz91riIryCsoM= =aGgT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list