On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 12:03 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Tue Nov 22 2005, 09:15:27AM CST] > > > Well, if we could educate the users that stage2 tarballs are totally > > > pointless, and that running bootstrap.sh followed by emerge -e system > > > from a stage3 is pretty much *exactly* the same as starting a stage1 > > > from scratch... > > > > It isn't pretty much anymore. It *is* exactly the same. > > I keep hearing this, isn't there a real difference between a stage 1 and > a stage 3 install inasmuch as somebody who needs (or wants) to > dramatically tailor what's in the system profile can choose to do so > from a stage 1 or 2, but would have to remove packages after the fact if > starting from a stage 3? I wouldn't have a problem with that, as long > as we document it, but it just seems that the claim that the old and new > methods produce _exactly_ the same results seems to be stretching things > a bit.
Who said that removing something isn't a part of the procedure to get an identical build? The point is that following the proper steps, one *can* get the exact same output. This would include using --newuse and cleaning out unused packages, along with any other maintenance items that would be required. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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