I'm a 'stage 1 guy'. I didn't participate in the poll. Vacation. :-)
My guess is that many (most) people turning to Gentoo does it with the very
idea that it's great to be able to 'do it yourself' from scratch.
I wrench a lot with my cars, my motorcycles and my house. I build my
computers (very often from surplus ;-). I'm even building another
motorcycle in my living-room right now. People tend to call me a
'do-it-yourself'-er.
The idea of doing a stage 2 or stage 3 didn't even come to my mind. I don't
care that much if I've gained some performance, which I believe I've done,
but the fact that I've done as much as possible myself in these computers
makes me sleep better.
It's also got a specific brag-value, though that is valid only to a very
limited audience. ;-)
Gus
"Mark Knecht"
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18-08-2003
16:42
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>
> Stage 1 tarball installs enough to get things rolling so a
> system can be built. Then it builds the system optimized
> for your computer. It takes a while but works well.
>
Sure, I get that much, but if 80+ % are doing it this way, what's the
advantage? I'm sure there must be one, but I didn't think I'd be so
convincingly in the minority! ;-)
I think coming up from Stage 1 the C compiler and everything that ends up
on
your system is built on your system, correct? I would guess this might be
more stable than a Stage 3 install where a lot of early stuff is built
elsewhere, but I've had zero problems with my Stage 3 machines so I hadn't
thought there would be a big advantage of doing a Stage 1.
I think I'm missing the point. ;-)
Cheers,
Mark
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