Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:34:41 -0400:
> we know that someone taking a stage3 has never configured anything > before and so we can safely put defaults into /root/. Just to point out... I've seen people mention overlaying a stage-3 on an existing installation for recovery reasons, generally broken gcc or (on amd64) switching back to multilib from 64-bit only profiles, so it /cannot/ be rightly assumed that there's not an existing configuration in /root/. (Whether that's the right way to accomplish such recovery isn't the point; the point is, it's done, by people desperate to get a working system once again who know no other way to do it.) Chris's idea of testing both USE=build *AND* that there's no existing file there that's going to get blown away, sounds reasonable, regardless of the debate over where the code is eventually placed. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
