Votes Percent Reason 47 82% Install from stage 1 1 2% Install from stage 2 9 16% Install from stage 3
Wow! I'm totally surprised! Do most people really do a stage 1 install? I still haven't done one yet. (Chicken)
Can someone fill me in on what would be the end-user advantage of doing a stage 1 install? Is the machine fast? More stable? Why do all the work?
Sorry to butt in late.
IMO, Stage 1 installations are what Gentoo is all about. It provides what the installation guide calls very rightly uber-optimisation! It allows you to specify your own custom cflags and your own custom use flags whereas a precompiled GRP package will have these settings determined by a second party.
I am a control freak and like to specify my own settings and configure the installation every step of the way despite the extra time it may take. And look at it this way, if you're going to recompile with emerge -e world why not do it in the first place with a stage 1 install? Correct?
Bootstrapping is a lot quicker than it used to be since it doesn't recompile gcc etc twice anymore. So that's a big speed up.
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