Mikey wrote:
> If you actually downloaded a "pristine" stage1 or a stage3 tarball you might 
> notice that there are, in fact, packages already present in world.  Glibc, 
> gettext, nano, gzip, and linux-headers.  Not that that matters one iota to 
> this conversation, but you need to get your own facts straight before 
> running around calling people idiots.

Name one of those that isn't in 'system'.

donnie@supernova ~ $ emvp -e system | grep -e gzip -e linux-headers -e
nano -e gettext -e glibc
[ebuild  N    ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.11-r3  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-arch/gzip-1.3.5-r8  USE="-build -nls -pic* -static" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/gettext-0.14.5  USE="emacs -doc -nls -nocxx%" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r2  USE="glibc-omitfp nptl nptlonly
userlocales -build -erandom -glibc-compat20 -hardened -linuxthreads-tls
-nls -pic* -profile" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-editors/nano-1.3.10  USE="ncurses spell unicode
-build -debug -justify -minimal -nls -slang" 0 kB