On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:44:49 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <SNIP> > > I use Gentoo to run all my boxen and I love it. That being said, I > have ALWAYS done a stage1 install. Never had a single problem I > couldn't fix. Then, suddenly, they switched everything to stage3 and > removed a LOT of options from the Gentoo build process.
[snip] > Now one of the biggest choices in > the Gentoo universe has been taken away from the user. Is Gentoo > becoming just another canned off-the-shelf *nix distro? No choices have been removed, from the build process, nothing has been taken away from the user. all that has changed is that the Gentoo Handbook describes a Stage 3 installation, Stage 1 is still possible, the instructions have been moved to the FAQ. I have always done Stage 1 installs in the past, but my last install was from Stage 3, because I needed the system working in less than two hours, which it was. Then I was able to tweak my USE flags and CFLAGS and rebuild the system to the same as I'd have got from Stage 1, but with the advantage of being able to do some work on the computer at the same time. Unless I was doing something very specialised, I think I'll stick with Stage 3 plus rebuild in future. -- Neil Bothwick Deja Moo: The feeling that you heard this bull somewhere before.
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