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 1Eeceh-0004zn-Qv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:14:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAMICBHn003124; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:12:11 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 jAMI6ZfR026277 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:06:36 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EecXK-0001lS-TJ for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:06:35 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EecXI-0008Rw-IV for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:06:32 +0000 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:06:30 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation Message-ID: <20051122180630.6beeeca2@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> References: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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; boundary="Sig_Z/R4NwT/wd3GxJR_9.EZ66t"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 04c35e90-8ce8-4e30-8b00-a8f24b9025c4 X-Archives-Hash: fe1f41ba9f75670b6709f773bb4caf23 --Sig_Z/R4NwT/wd3GxJR_9.EZ66t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:47:45 +0000 Kurt Lieber wrote: | In my years of monitoring www@gentoo.org, we've received the most | complaints about this decision than any other single decision. How many of those complaints were from users who understood the issues involved, and how many were knee-jerk reactions from morons who thought that there was a reason to use stage1s other than for seed stages and to get around a nasty bug in stager (which we no longer use)? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_Z/R4NwT/wd3GxJR_9.EZ66t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDg14o96zL6DUtXhERAglsAKDaFgDooD9wiPttXhmAF5d8HtjBcgCcDauh KE/y5heUF1nphXvaQGMH3Vk= =vD8U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_Z/R4NwT/wd3GxJR_9.EZ66t-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list