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On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 16:17 +0200, Flammie Pirinen wrote: |
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> 2005-11-06, Sven Vermeulen sanoi, jotta: |
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> > The Gentoo Release Engineering team is pushing us to remove stage1 and |
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> > stage2 references from the Gentoo Handbook. They are getting too many |
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> > errors because the user is not able to fully comprehend the |
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> > implications of a stage1 or stage2 installation. |
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> Hmm, I'd like it, if we also (re)moved stage1 and stage2 from visible |
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> directory, and renamed stage3 to something more appropriate by the |
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> 2006.0. I mean, it will probably be confusing for a new user if the |
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> guide just says "Oh, we have this things that say 1 and 2 in the |
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> directory, but please ignore them and start from 3, because 1 and 2 are |
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> only for devs, k?" And it won't help, that old users will most likely |
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> continue to advice for stage 1 in so many support channels. |
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I'm not sure if the removal of stages 1 and 2 will happen in time for |
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2006.0, simply because it is a *very* heated issue and one that will |
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take some serious politics to get enacted. |
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I guarantee that I won't be a popular guy. *grin* |
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If it were up to me, I would not have stage1 or stage2 on the mirrors, |
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at all. I would probably have a stage1 tarball on bittorrent, simply |
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because there are uses for a stage1 tarball, just not uses many people |
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consider. For example, supporting a new platform. It isn't quite as |
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useful for normal installations, though. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |