> Hehe, sure, you make it sound so easy... Then I'm not optimized for my > machine? Another reason I chose gentoo over other distro's, was to see > what all the fuss is/was about compiling code on a per-machine basis. I
If you use the proper tarball (amd64/p3 or whatever) then it will be already at the best optimizations. The big point and advantage of Gentoo are the USE flags as they control what gets compiled and what is needed. Also I like that most ebuilds have the recent versions and i don't have to keep tracking dependencies ebtween packages using pen and paper and keeping a log of all that install. Also an update of a package will also update the dependencies which is really nice. > I previously hadn't entertained the idea of doing stage3 (for the > reasons above - stage1 or bust), but may have to think about that one > some more. I'll run into this specific trouble if I do a Deep/World > update before this bug gets fixed however, won't I? So long as I don't > do a system/world update (or any other portage update commands that > affect the system fundamentals i.e. coreutils and Perl), I should be It's not sure that you will hit the bug by updating perl and coreutils from a stage 3. Personally I've had the worse luck using stage 1 and stage 2 and kept getting into weird situations. Only way to be sure is to install the stage3, run emerge sync then emerge coreutils. > able to run, yes? Can I compile my own optimized kernel, and run that > against a stage3 'system', or do I have to use Genkernel? Is there much > difference from a stage3 install, and putting Portage on SuSe? I'm > genuinely not trying to be smart w/ that last comment, just trying to > understand the differences better. From what I know at this point > (barring the rc-script changes, which, frankly are very confusing for me > because of some Solaris backgrounding), there isn't much different? I don't know about putting Portage on Suse. You can use an already compiled kernel to install stage3, but I find it easier to boot from the cd, do the basic installation,lilo, passwd root then reboot then do all the kernel compilations. -- [email protected] mailing list
