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On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 03:40 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> Pretty much work for a beginnner! |
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...and? |
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You're using a source-based distribution. It is not designed for the |
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beginner insomuch as you have to perform maintenance tasks that would |
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otherwise be unnecessary in a binary-only distribution. |
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> And there's pretty much of experience needed. |
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Yes, there is. There's also the ability to follow the directions given |
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by ebuilds when they're merged. |
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> Actually, the moment when there's an upgrade to glibc and gcc, than |
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> there's no advantage in taking a stage3 - the whole "upgrading the |
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> stage3"-thing will take as long as using a stage1. |
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Not quite. |
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> Why? because i have to upgrade glibc and gcc - and that is basically |
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> what bootstrap.sh does too. |
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...and headers, and portage, and baselayout, and binutils, and texinfo, |
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and zlib, and ncurses... |
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Something else that *everybody* seems to be missing is that the *first* |
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method in the GCC upgrading guide, which is the one that would apply |
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from a fresh-installed system, seems to be completely overlooked by all |
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the naysayers. Funny how if someone actually read the entire document, |
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they'd see just how much of their own time they're wasting. |
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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 |
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