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 1EedlS-00051h-VW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:25:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAMJO3wC020188; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:24:03 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAMJLlCS010142 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:21:48 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r28so1104494nza for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:21:47 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=t3Cx0rOcoOnpEm5YCm98n1FYXfYg3LIDXTV21cTaqo6jsMsK/YgRyZTbOyMU3LDtG8PqKBIXF1vqKkcc7SquNfCitrYghq1ZnC4wngw2peq1H3bWKpiMKS3WI5PS/0D6KauyNTY2V7oDmZ07fyubmrbGjiWR/CVzHsH5AnL7hMU= Received: by 10.36.129.13 with SMTP id b13mr4192664nzd; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from paradise.home ( [210.214.85.212]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 19sm691665nzp.2005.11.22.11.21.46; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:21:47 -0800 (PST) From: Abhay Kedia To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:53:07 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> <200511222310.57270.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> <1132685950.27288.76.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1132685950.27288.76.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; boundary="nextPart1904960.ppzfs9BRTc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511230053.08125.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 56f7548a-8b6c-41c6-9403-25bf14e898e2 X-Archives-Hash: 95a0c10d17d9fae3673060db5f822ab2 --nextPart1904960.ppzfs9BRTc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 23 Nov 2005 12:29 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > As I stated before, you're more than able to take a stage3 tarball + > catalyst + the example catalyst spec files and build your own stage1 > tarball. In fact, this is the exact same procedure that Release > Engineering uses in building these tarballs to begin with. So the > "choice" is still there. > I agree with you totally and have no problems at all in having Stage 1/2=20 methods or even the tar balls officially removed from Gentoo but all these= =20 complaints by users (or slashdotters as beejay says) are arising because th= e=20 whole thing has not been documented too well. The users just know one thing= =20 i.e. Stage 1 and 2 have been removed and hence the knee jerk reaction. They= =20 don't know that these methods have *not* been removed, just the way to get = to=20 the point has changed (no matter how worthless it is). I actually would like to reiterate what Henrik said in one of his posts "If= =20 our users are explained why stage1/2 installs don't give any benefits over = a=20 stage3 install, I trust them to acknowledge this fact." Abhay --nextPart1904960.ppzfs9BRTc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDg3AcxrDNZ6sJF8cRAmJAAJ9y7E57O+6YXmryW36r1j43NeP+kwCgoiUv UJQsT0dcd88rI0sWZzRrHa8= =qZW1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1904960.ppzfs9BRTc-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list