From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EeWYl-0004k4-MC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:43:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAMBfcdI027116; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:41:38 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAMBWxlU022064 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:32:59 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EeWOO-0001sU-E4 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:32:56 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ABFC1406260 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:32:51 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:32:47 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?) Message-ID: <20051122113247.2e6642c5@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <438268E2.8050304@planet.nl> References: <8aaf1ee00511210433s6d23e8a6l6d95c9c2f2ed8b7d@mail.gmail.com> <200511211413.14160.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <4381E519.7090900@planet.nl> <20051122000947.GH10134@inxservices.com> <438268E2.8050304@planet.nl> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_CGXF6GJiZydBx5dJniWBdUO; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 022319bb-8782-4d35-8533-c0178b1f4c75 X-Archives-Hash: 33296d03391220847c1f163515dbc354 --Sig_CGXF6GJiZydBx5dJniWBdUO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:40:02 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Myself, I don't consider that either a stage 1 or stage 3 leaves me with > more than a minimally functional system after the initial install, but a > stage 3 leaves me with a *higher functioning* minimal install than a > stage 1 does. A stage 3 install doesn't give you any more than a stage 1. all it means is you skip some laborious and time-consuming steps in the handbook, you end up in the same place. > But at least after a stage 3, I don't have to be *uncomfortable* while > I'm waiting to get my system up to my personal spec-- I can still *use* > Mozilla, even if it's compiled with Mail, and Composer, and IRC, while I > wait for it to recompile with the -moz*** USE flags. You can't, stage 3 doesn't even include X. However, you can use the GRP packages with a stage 3 installation, because the flags are all at default, so you can merge your preferred DE, mail and browser as binary packages in a few minutes. If you like ~arch, you don't even need an emerge --emptytree after the system is running, as emerge -uDN world after changing KEYWORDS and USE will update just about everything anyway. --=20 Neil Bothwick Any program which runs right is obsolete. --Sig_CGXF6GJiZydBx5dJniWBdUO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDgwHjum4al0N1GQMRAsJ/AJ0bp20lIL1oyEGxkBWCX+Z//1+oHQCgjzE1 xpZBNtoV7YZ+ti8VSjAxBs0= =hy58 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_CGXF6GJiZydBx5dJniWBdUO-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list