On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:15:58 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > No, but they are on the GRP package CDs that accompany each release. > > > yes, but there's no requirement to use grp packages with a stage-3. > > There is if you're using stage 3 as quoted above.
what have you been smoking Neil? A stage 3 install just means you have a biggish tarball at the start and it installs a very basic working system ready to comile on. You still do your own kernel and you can EITHER use GRP packages OR compile them yourself. Soem people prefer to use GRP and stage 3 to get a working system and then add or change packages later. At least they then have a gui and can read their email and peruse bugzilla/forums/wiki (OK I know you can do all those things in a console too) You can also use the GRP packages if you started from stage 1. They are simply pre-compiled with a pre-defined set of USE flags, and a set of CFLAGS for their architecture. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
