On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:15 +0100, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:48:06AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > > Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2 > > > > tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. > > > > Answer: Download it in less than 10 minutes. > > > I'd love to see you do the same with a stage1 tarball + all the > > distfiles you'll need to go from stage1 to stage3. > > Assuming you keep all distfiles you already downloaded (which some > people do, like me). So you'd just need stage 1, nothing else. > Maybe that does not justify keeping stage1 (imho not even though > it's useful for me), but it _is_ answering your intial question. ;-)
Just because you downloaded them previously does not mean you didn't download them. > Btw, if i use stage 3 and then emerge -e world to recompile my whole > system with -omg-optimized i assume stage 3 may lose against stage 1 > and compiling -omg-optimized from the beginning. Not that it makes > much sense to do that though. *sigh* You have proven my point. Thank you. If you compile the same sources with the same settings, you get the same output. It doesn't matter if you started from a stage1, stage2, stage3, or stage4 tarball. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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