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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> Hi all |
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> Rac pointed me to the following thread: |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254119 |
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> In short, he advises to use stage3 even if you want to perform a stage1 or |
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> stage2 so that you won't have issues with things like circular dependencies |
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> (foo depends on bar which depends on foo) and files on your system that |
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> aren't registered in Portage' DB. |
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I don't think that circular depndencies are a big problem as they can be |
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avioded or easily fixed manualy (and will be handled properly in some |
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future version of portage), but having files "not belonging" to any |
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packages is IMHO a bad thing, biggets issue with stages<3. |
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j. |
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