22.11.2005, 20:57:15, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > The idea was to move out the stage1/stage2 docs to somewhere else. Then > create some sort of "Advanced Installation Topics" guide or something, to > list out the replacement procedures for customizing a system from a stage3 > tarball, then, eventually, drop the stage1 and stage2 tarballs.
Erm, did you read what solar wrote about hardened stages and why should stage1 still stay? > I was working on the idea of doing it all in stages. The "problem" occurred > from people freaking out because they didn't bother reading the entire news > blurb that tells exactly where the instructions moved to, plus links to the > bug # and discussion. There's also this nice section in the Handbook. > "A stage3 tarball is an archive containing a minimal Gentoo environment, > suitable to continue the Gentoo installation using the instructions in > this manual. Previously, the Gentoo Handbook described the installation > using one of three stage tarballs. While Gentoo still offers stage1 and > stage2 tarballs, the official installation method uses the stage3 > tarball. If you are interested in performing a Gentoo installation using > a stage1 or stage2 tarball, please read the Gentoo FAQ on How do I > Install Gentoo Using a Stage1 or Stage2 Tarball?" That FAQ section has nothing in common with the original stage1 docs. Sorry, installing stage3 to remove all the use flags cruft subsequently, bootstrap and re-emerge the system and then ponder which packages are not needed any more (again, there's no reliable tool to remove unneeded stuff from system, I've already mentioned this once) - hmmm... :/ And - once stages 1+2 are removed (as you are suggesting above), then I'll install the system only to build my own stage1 w/ catalyst, then reformat and start over with my own stage? Ah, that makes live sooo much easier ;p > Really, everybody is just up in arms over a knee-jerk reaction to not > reading carefully. What it boils down to is either not knowing the > facts, or trolling/flaming. Why exactly is evaporating stage1 an ultimate goal here (as it seems to me?). So don't support it, but why it should not exist? -- jakub
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