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 4.43) id 1EEWWN-0002S0-Q4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:25:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8BIKaBG026699; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:20:36 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8BIGowH008902 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:16:51 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so157230nzc for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:21:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=s5VDFEAnPWBSfXbb+QKCoRx4BAI43Qaau/i+wbNpd9YeJ7ok/FfwOI4ARGw4LxRCLOiipZ++9puwGeTCQfv+oywEFonbewIV+WngY7QwNjpkDHUNx/2uuJOKwNcy5snYyShqnIOume2NoyVAd/JVnoE8FObJdpgBOCiY/yx8iWM= Received: by 10.37.20.43 with SMTP id x43mr401808nzi; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.104? ( [24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 15sm2174154nzn.2005.09.11.11.21.04; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <43247507.5060104@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:18:47 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050804) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage? References: <1126375769.5733.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200509111838.37092.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <642958cc0509110958794615f7@mail.gmail.com> <200509111912.51475.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <43246E0F.1080807@gmail.com> <00bd01c5b6fc$53c1f0c0$0a00a8c0@butthead> In-Reply-To: <00bd01c5b6fc$53c1f0c0$0a00a8c0@butthead> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 90204571-7d95-4827-b40d-75306ebc5f71 X-Archives-Hash: af27c1670aad4e059dc3ed72bd88a5b9 Dave Nebinger wrote: >> Note that the 2005.1 handbook mentions only the stage3 and not stage1 >> or stage2. Installation from the lower stages is more error prone and >> best avoided. > > > Hardly. Starting from a stage 3 is like starting from any old binary > distribution. > > 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. > > Granted it will be more error-prone to start at a lower stage, but we're > all here because we want that level of build. If we were happy with > stage 3 installs, we'd be running from some binary distribution instead. > A stage3 install has most of the benefits of a stage1 or stage2. Portage gives you the ability to rebuild *every* single package if you choose. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list