Re: [gentoo-releng] USE flags and stages 1 and 2

[Seemant Kulleen]

Here's my take. The purpose of stage1 is to get you to stage2.  Stage
1's psychological purpose is "look ma, I can boostrap".  If we go to two
stages, take out 1, and let the emerge -e system step be the one that
the customisation starts at (including things like changing
/etc/portage/profile/virtuals to change virtual/editor to vim or emacs
or blah).  You don't do any of that in stage1, it's stage2 that all the
action actually happens.

Having said that, you will see a lot of noise about wanting stage1's.
Stage 3 has the advantage of speed, but the disadvantage of defaults
like nano (which then need to be expressly replaced).

Anyway, I don't think I've added any help in one direction or another,
just putting my thoughts out there.

Thanks,

Seemant
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