On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 9:05 AM Roy Bamford <neddyseag...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Does this proposal allow for installing the payload without > the use of the Gentoo package manager from some random > distro being used as a rescue media? >
Yes, it is a tarball of tarballs. There would be an extra step, but a vanilla tarball containing the files to be extracted could be extracted as long as you have tar and the appropriate decompressor (not specified and could change, but I imagine it will remain bzip2 for now). -- Rich
