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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:23:58
Message-Id: 200801141123.53070.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead? by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 On Monday 14 January 2008 10:48:08 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
2 > > > You can use Daniel Robbins' stage3s:
3 > >
4 > > Why should I? They're likely also built with different use flags than
5 > > the ones I use. Thus I will end up recompiling anyway.
6 >
7 > Ah ok, I wrongly thought yours was more a problem of outdated stage3
8 > tarballs rather than different USE flags. In this case yes, the best
9 > option is starting from stage1.
10
11 Not really. emerge -e world from a stage 3 is still both considerably less
12 effort than stage 1 and much more reliable. Furthermore stage 1 is completely
13 unsupported and for a very good reason.
14
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16 Bo Andresen

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