Re: [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs

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installing with stage3 and 2x emerge -e system and 2x emerge -e world will
give you exact performance as it was installed from stage1..

On 4/16/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@××××××××××.net> wrote:
>
> On Monday 16 April 2007, Jesús Guerrero <6thpink@×××××.es> wrote about
> 'Re:
> [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs':
> > El Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:54:49 +0300
> >
> > "Stratos Psomadakis" <el05007@×××××××××.gr> escribió:
> > > can anyone explain to me what are the differences between the stage
> > > 1,2 and 3 installation tarballs?ç
> >
> > They are three different stages of the same thing. Stage1 is a tarball
> > which contains a basic minimal C compiler.
>
> And, unless a fix has been discovered and applied, stage1 tarball doesn't
> contain any information about what packages own what files, so starting
> from stage 1 will leave a minimal amount of cruft in /usr (?and /var?).
>
> IIRC, I started from stage 1 on my first install (2004.3), but I wouldn't
> recommend anything other than stage 3 to anyone at this point, since
> there's now an established procedure for changing your CHOST if need be,
> and packages in system will eventually pick up any CFLAGS customizations
> gradually.
>
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