On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:59:14 -0500, John Jolet wrote:

> > > 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.

> No, there isn't.  This laptop was built with a stage 3 tarball,
> everything else was compiled from source.  I know because I watched kde
> build for 16 hours.

Read the quote you removed

> > > > 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.

You clearly were prepared to take the lengthy build time for KDE etc. But
others don't have that luxury, like when I built my laptop, so Stage 3 +
GRP does the whole job in less than 10% of the time you spent on KDE
alone... not that this has anything to do with the original topic :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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