On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:18:03 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. I believe Rac has made a post on the gentoo forums about how > > stage1 is flawed, It does not add the original packages to world > > file or something, and as such, he reccommends starting with a > > stage3 and then then rebootstrapping and emerge world after starting > > a stage3. > > Well, here's my take on this. No bug has been filed on it... I have > been looking into this, and plan on "fixing" the stage1 and stage2 > targets in catalyst. I am actually a bit peeved at this situation, > since -releng (who controls the stages and the stage building) has > never been approached on this, but I'm leaving that one alone. Well, I know that I and several others have talked with zhen about this in the past with no resolution. The reason for this IMO broken behavior was to reduce a `emerge -e system` to just `emerge system` to avoid recompiling the toolchain a second time on a stage1 install IIRC. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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