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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 12:03 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Tue Nov 22 2005, 09:15:27AM CST] |
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> > > Well, if we could educate the users that stage2 tarballs are totally |
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> > > pointless, and that running bootstrap.sh followed by emerge -e system |
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> > > from a stage3 is pretty much *exactly* the same as starting a stage1 |
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> > > from scratch... |
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> > |
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> > It isn't pretty much anymore. It *is* exactly the same. |
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> I keep hearing this, isn't there a real difference between a stage 1 and |
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> a stage 3 install inasmuch as somebody who needs (or wants) to |
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> dramatically tailor what's in the system profile can choose to do so |
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> from a stage 1 or 2, but would have to remove packages after the fact if |
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> starting from a stage 3? I wouldn't have a problem with that, as long |
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> as we document it, but it just seems that the claim that the old and new |
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> methods produce _exactly_ the same results seems to be stretching things |
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> a bit. |
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Who said that removing something isn't a part of the procedure to get an |
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identical build? |
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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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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 |
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