On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 22:22 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > Well, the "enhancement" would be that we don't need stage1+2 > tarballs anymore, it would solve several dependency bugs, in > theory remove the need for the bootstrap use flag and simplify > documentation.
I really hope that nobody writes up any sort of enhancement request such as this without talking to me, as we've already got things in the works to completely go the opposite direction. > The proposal is to just let everyone start from a stage3 environment and > just let them run different commands depending if they want a fully > customized system (stage1 install) or use a prebuilt system (stage3 > install), don't know how to describe a stage2 install. Well, the idea that we're shooting for is pretty much nothing like that. Instead, there won't be any stage tarballs except for a (fixed) stage1. If this means we need to add a few packages to the stage1 tarball to make it work better, then so be it. Any other stage would be generated on-the-fly by the installer in the exact same manner as how GRP will work. Now, we're just now really in the planning stages for this, so don't expect it to come overnight. At the same time, don't expect us to go changing around things in ways that would contradict the direction in which releng wants to go for limited short-term gains. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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