| 1 |
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:15 +0100, Wernfried Haas wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:48:06AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
| 3 |
> > > > Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2 |
| 4 |
> > > > tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. |
| 5 |
> |
| 6 |
> > > Answer: Download it in less than 10 minutes. |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> > I'd love to see you do the same with a stage1 tarball + all the |
| 9 |
> > distfiles you'll need to go from stage1 to stage3. |
| 10 |
> |
| 11 |
> Assuming you keep all distfiles you already downloaded (which some |
| 12 |
> people do, like me). So you'd just need stage 1, nothing else. |
| 13 |
> Maybe that does not justify keeping stage1 (imho not even though |
| 14 |
> it's useful for me), but it _is_ answering your intial question. ;-) |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
Just because you downloaded them previously does not mean you didn't |
| 17 |
download them. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
> Btw, if i use stage 3 and then emerge -e world to recompile my whole |
| 20 |
> system with -omg-optimized i assume stage 3 may lose against stage 1 |
| 21 |
> and compiling -omg-optimized from the beginning. Not that it makes |
| 22 |
> much sense to do that though. |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
*sigh* |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
You have proven my point. Thank you. If you compile the same sources |
| 27 |
with the same settings, you get the same output. It doesn't matter if |
| 28 |
you started from a stage1, stage2, stage3, or stage4 tarball. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
-- |
| 31 |
Chris Gianelloni |
| 32 |
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
| 33 |
x86 Architecture Team |
| 34 |
Games - Developer |
| 35 |
Gentoo Linux |
Archives