On 19 April 2016 at 07:14, Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote: > The closest I've ever seen for Debian to a Gentoo stage3 installation (the > developers discourage usage of stage2 installs these days unless you're > bootstrapping _everything_ yourself) is debbootstrap, and I could never get > that to work reliably.
Fair, I remember Gentoo stage3+documentation was more straightforward than debbootstrap+documentation. There are a couple of wrappers around debbootstrap and better documentation now, but I think there are still rare times when bootstrapping from unstable or testing will fail because a major transition is in progress (like the libc5 -> libc6 transition, the ulibc -> glibc one, possibly the multiarch or multilib transition, sometimes a GCC one, etc.) > FWIW, the installer wasn't the only reason I switched to Gentoo, the two > bigger ones for me were wanting newer software versions and needing > different sets of features enabled on packages than the default builds, I > ended up switching at the point that I was building more locally than I was > installing from the repositories. Ah yes, a convenient stream of fresh updates and the power of USE flags :-) For my needs, security-only updates + a backport whenever I need a more up-to-date package of saves me time. That's what the choice of tool comes down to, right? Does what you need it to, and saves you time. Best regards, Nicholas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
