Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: USE flags and stages 1 and 2
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:46:28
Message-Id: 1130798736.26789.156.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] Re: USE flags and stages 1 and 2 by Anthony Gorecki
1 On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 14:27 -0800, Anthony Gorecki wrote:
2 > On Monday, October 31, 2005 14:26, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 > > It *does* however guarantee that you have a minimal working system of
4 > > known quality with which to do your installation from, rather than a
5 > > completely hacked and limited functionality minimal environment designed
6 > > only to support the building of a minimal working system.
7 >
8 > It is for that reason that I support keeping stage one tarballs available.
9 > Cheers for the stubborn.
10
11 Huh?
12
13 You support keeping a stage1 tarball around because it is a completely
14 hacked and broken minimal environment capable of *only* supporting the
15 bootstrap operation?
16
17 --
18 Chris Gianelloni
19 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
20 x86 Architecture Team
21 Games - Developer
22 Gentoo Linux

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