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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 13:28 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> > The point is that following the proper steps, one *can* get the exact |
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> > same output. This would include using --newuse and cleaning out unused |
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> > packages, along with any other maintenance items that would be required. |
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> That's fine with me. All I really want to do is ensure that we preserve |
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> our users' ability to tinker with system without making life too painful |
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> for them. Starting from a stage 1 it was obvious how to do such |
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> tinkering. I would argue that it's not quite as obvious how to do that |
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> when starting from a stage 3, so a bit of additional documentation on |
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> how to do that would be nice. If that were done, then I would have no |
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> complaints about the stage 1 and stage 2 tarballs going away altogether. |
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That's kinda what I am shooting for down the line. |
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The idea was to move out the stage1/stage2 docs to somewhere else. Then |
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create some sort of "Advanced Installation Topics" guide or something, |
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to list out the replacement procedures for customizing a system from a |
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stage3 tarball, then, eventually, drop the stage1 and stage2 tarballs. |
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I was working on the idea of doing it all in stages. The "problem" |
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occurred from people freaking out because they didn't bother reading the |
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entire news blurb that tells exactly where the instructions moved to, |
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plus links to the bug # and discussion. There's also this nice section |
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in the Handbook. |
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"A stage3 tarball is an archive containing a minimal Gentoo environment, |
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suitable to continue the Gentoo installation using the instructions in |
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this manual. Previously, the Gentoo Handbook described the installation |
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using one of three stage tarballs. While Gentoo still offers stage1 and |
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stage2 tarballs, the official installation method uses the stage3 |
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tarball. If you are interested in performing a Gentoo installation using |
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a stage1 or stage2 tarball, please read the Gentoo FAQ on How do I |
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Install Gentoo Using a Stage1 or Stage2 Tarball?" |
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Really, everybody is just up in arms over a knee-jerk reaction to not |
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reading carefully. What it boils down to is either not knowing the |
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facts, or trolling/flaming. |
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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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