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On Wednesday 23 Nov 2005 12:29 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> As I stated before, you're more than able to take a stage3 tarball + |
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> catalyst + the example catalyst spec files and build your own stage1 |
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> tarball. In fact, this is the exact same procedure that Release |
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> Engineering uses in building these tarballs to begin with. So the |
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> "choice" is still there. |
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I agree with you totally and have no problems at all in having Stage 1/2 |
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methods or even the tar balls officially removed from Gentoo but all these |
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complaints by users (or slashdotters as beejay says) are arising because the |
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whole thing has not been documented too well. The users just know one thing |
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i.e. Stage 1 and 2 have been removed and hence the knee jerk reaction. They |
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don't know that these methods have *not* been removed, just the way to get to |
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the point has changed (no matter how worthless it is). |
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I actually would like to reiterate what Henrik said in one of his posts "If |
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our users are explained why stage1/2 installs don't give any benefits over a |
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stage3 install, I trust them to acknowledge this fact." |
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Abhay |