[gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst stages inter-dependencies

[Shinkan]

Hi everyone.

Just one simple question :
Let's say I want to use a base official gentoo stage3 to build a stage4 with
catalyst.
Let's say I wrote my own profile, which defines a very very minimal system
with no gcc, no portage, ..., and that I use this profile for stage4.
If I use catalyst stage4 spec file type, which takes a stage3 as a seed,
would my stage4 contains everything from stage3 (that I don't explicitely
remove), or would my stage4 be built from scratch by stage3 (and contains
just system ports my stage4 profile specified) ?

The same question goes for livecd.
Would my final livecd contain stage3 or livecd-stage1 build tools if I
define a minimal system profile for livecd-stage2 ?

Thanks in advance.

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