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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 16:26 +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:10:14AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > Personally, I would like to see stage1 and stage2 go away completely. |
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> > They serve no real purpose anymore after the changes we have made to the |
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> > stages to include a complete /var/db before 2005.0's release. They take |
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> > longer to use for installation, and give you exactly 0 advantages over a |
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> > stage3 that cannot be done with a stage3 tarball itself. |
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> Perhaps we should just document these facts better? Write a news item |
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> explaining the reasons behind removing stage1/2 instructions from our |
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> handbooks - and explain _why_ stage1 and 2 are not really better than |
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> a stage3 install + bootstrap.sh + emerge -e world. Perhaps also add a |
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> small note about this to the handbook. |
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Well, the information was in the bug linked with the GWN article, along |
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with also in the gentoo-docs mailing list archive that was posted. |
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> If our users are explained why stage1/2 installs don't give any |
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> benefits over a stage3 install, I trust them to aknowledge this fact. |
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Your faith is much stronger than mine. |
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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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