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On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 20:23 -0600, Mikey wrote: |
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> If you actually downloaded a "pristine" stage1 or a stage3 tarball you might |
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> notice that there are, in fact, packages already present in world. Glibc, |
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> gettext, nano, gzip, and linux-headers. Not that that matters one iota to |
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> this conversation, but you need to get your own facts straight before |
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> running around calling people idiots. |
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Damn. I have to bite. |
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All of these are in system, so please, give up until you have a clue |
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what you're talking about. |
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> The difference in doing from stage1 instead of stage3 is you don't have to |
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> go through a gcc migration to prevent your build from being unusable. You |
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> also go through 1 gcc upgrade (gcc 3.3.5 -> gcc 3.4.4), not 3 (3.3.5 -> |
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> 3.3.6 -> 3.4.4). We are talking reality here, not fantasy. |
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You don't have to go through the whole migration to work from a stage3, |
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either. Just because *you* did doesn't mean it is required, in any way. |
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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 |