Ahaha thanks Alan, very explanatory and funny email!
I won't say "gentoo is fast" anymore, I promise. :-)

As for the rest i'll just keep the i486 base and start from there since I
already compiled the kernel and stuff...

Thanks all

D
Il giorno 02/apr/2013 21:18, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> ha
scritto:

> On 02/04/2013 19:51, Davide Carnovale wrote:
> > Hi all gentoo people!
> > I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of
> > reinstalling it today.
> > While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is
> > available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the
> > days, for being fast, as it was one of the first distro to support
> > i686... am i wrong with this? if not, why only i486 today?
> >
> > apart from the reasons behind the decision of shipping only an i486
> > stage 3, do you think it's worth the pain to recompile everything
> > (like the old stage1) for a different arch? i have an intel i5
> > processor.
>
> You have been gone a while :-)
>
> These days we don't do the whole stage 1/2/3 thing while rebuilding the
> whole lot multiple times.
>
> Nowadays we just unpack a suitable stage 3 into a chroot, tweak CFLAGS,
> "emerge -e world", then emerge all the packages you use.
>
> The stage3 tarballs are normally quite out of date so you will rebuild
> the whole lot anyway asap. If your workstation is also your buildhost,
> the bests start for CFLAGS with a reasonably recent gcc is
>
> CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
>
> and CHOST, as always, is something you should not be touching at all.
>
> IOW, as long as you start with the desired ABI (32 vs 64 bit) your first
> update is going to optimize and fix things anyway. So don't wprry about it.
>
> Oh, and "gentoo is fast" is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing
> :-) Nowadays we say the benefit of gentoo is USE so you get what *you*
> want :-)
>
>
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>
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