On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:24:19 -0500, John Jolet wrote:

> > > > 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.
> >
> > No, but they are on the GRP package CDs that accompany each release.

> yes, but there's no requirement to use grp packages with a stage-3.

There is if you're using stage 3 as quoted above.


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