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

["Andrew MacKenzie" <amackenz@edespot.com>]

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> > what have you been smoking Neil? A stage 3 install just means you have
> > a biggish tarball at the start and it installs a very basic working
> > system ready to comile on. You still do your own kernel and you can
> > EITHER use GRP packages OR compile them yourself. 
> I know, but the quote you removed was about using stage 3 to save time
> to have a running system asap. If that's your objective, you're hardly
> going to follow it up by compiling KDE and X from scratch, are you?
I always have...

stage 3 gets me to a point where while I'm compiling X, KDE, qt, Gnome, and
the rest of the world, I can use my computer.  Especially since the first
things I emerge are those I'm likely to use (mutt, irc client, etc.).

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