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> > And really unless you REALLY care about your CFLAGS you get 99% of the |
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> > benefit just sticking with the original stage3 and just rebuilding |
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> > anything you change USE flags for. Over time it will all get rebuilt |
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> > anyway using your preferences. |
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> If I understand that correctly, using the stage3 tarball will give me a |
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> fully functioning system from binaries, but I can convert that in one |
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> fell swoop into sources by re-emerging everything, saving me the hassle |
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> of the bootstrap.=C2=A0 Of course, a trojan horse could be in that tarball |
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> and squirrel itself away ... but then, I'm not supporting Fort Knox, |
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> either...=C2=A0 that'll save some work ;-) |
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What do you refer to by "bootstrap"? |
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Do you mean setup.py in the portage tree? |
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Tom |