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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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| Hi all |
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| Rac pointed me to the following thread: |
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| http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254119 |
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| In short, he advises to use stage3 even if you want to perform a stage1 or |
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| stage2 so that you won't have issues with things like circular |
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dependencies |
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| (foo depends on bar which depends on foo) and files on your system that |
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| aren't registered in Portage' DB. |
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I've performed stage1 and stage3 installs on both x86 and ppc hardware |
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and have never encountered a circular dependency problem. |
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Theoretically, such problems should never arise because of the great |
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work performed by the RelEng QA people. |
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It is my personal opinion that the only benefit of stage3 over either of |
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the other two is that with stage3 you get an independent system faster. |
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~ From there, sync and update for the full "Gentoo Experience" (tm). If |
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someone is having difficulty with a specific release, that should be |
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handled like any other bug. |
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Summary: I don't see a need for changing the Gentoo docs; they're (IMHO) |
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the best resource available to quick instruction in the ways of Linux. |
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Not to say problems don't exist or that we shouldn't address the ones |
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that do; just that I have never personally had this experience and that |
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if it is coming up, there are deeper problems in the Gentoo tree than |
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just the installation procedure. |
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My .02 USD |
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- -Nick Dimiduk |
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