Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

["Dave Nebinger" <dnebinger@joat.com>]

>> Starting from stage 1 & 2 allows you to build a box customized from the
>> ground up optimized for your hardware (assuming you've set the cflags
>> correctly before beginning).
>>
>> IMHO, stage 3 is for those that don't want to take the lengthy build time
>> for some of the larger packages, i.e. X and kde/gnome, in order to have a
>> basic working gentoo system in a short timeframe.
> I'm not sure where you get this from, since X and kde/gnome  aren't IN a
> stage-3 tarball.

Oops, my bad.  Shows how many stage-3 installs I've done ;-)

> As I stated before, iterative testing with several binary
> distros and a stage-3 gentoo on this here laptop have shown that, even
> starting with stage-3, gentoo is faster and more efficient.

I wasn't questioning whether gentoo would be faster and/or more efficient 
than the other binary distros.

My point was that, for the most part, saying "start with stage 3" is like 
saying "use a binary distrib".  With stage 3 you're starting with 
precompiled binaries that are built targeting someone else's hardware, not 
your own. 

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