Paul de Vrieze wrote: > First of all, the object to be as fast as possible has been dropped as > main gentoo goal years ago. Stage 3 is indeed based on an old base. It > however starts you with a working system in which all assumptions made by > ebuilds about the system are true. This means one should expect a stage 3 > to have no problems emerging any package. This is not true for a stage 1 > or stage 2.
The expectation of a stage3 having no problems emerging any package is only true if you don't stray from the preselected desktop-centric USE flags that were used to build the stage3 in the first place. When building a suitable environment for a server, in my case, the very first thing I have to contend with is blockages and pruning in just the right order. In my experience, your assumption is reversed. A build from stage1 does not run into the problems inherent with a stage3. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
