On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:03:49 -0600 Grant Goodyear wrote: | I keep hearing this, isn't there a real difference between a stage 1 | and a stage 3 install inasmuch as somebody who needs (or wants) to | dramatically tailor what's in the system profile can choose to do so | from a stage 1 or 2, but would have to remove packages after the fact | if starting from a stage 3? I wouldn't have a problem with that, as | long as we document it emerge -e world && emerge -e world && emerge depclean Exactly the same results, except that it won't fall over and die because of unlisted circular dependencies. | but it just seems that the claim that the old and new methods produce | _exactly_ the same results seems to be stretching things a bit. How do you think stage3s are built in the first place? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm