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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> posted |
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200709201234.42152.vapier@g.o, excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Sep |
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2007 12:34:41 -0400: |
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> we know that someone taking a stage3 has never configured anything |
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> before and so we can safely put defaults into /root/. |
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Just to point out... I've seen people mention overlaying a stage-3 on an |
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existing installation for recovery reasons, generally broken gcc or (on |
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amd64) switching back to multilib from 64-bit only profiles, so it |
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/cannot/ be rightly assumed that there's not an existing configuration |
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in /root/. (Whether that's the right way to accomplish such recovery |
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isn't the point; the point is, it's done, by people desperate to get a |
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working system once again who know no other way to do it.) |
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Chris's idea of testing both USE=build *AND* that there's no existing |
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file there that's going to get blown away, sounds reasonable, regardless |
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of the debate over where the code is eventually placed. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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