Re: [tlug] Back to Gentoo!

[Stuart Luppescu <slu@example.com>]

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 05:43 +0200, Josh Glover wrote:
> 2012/4/27 Kenneth Burling <burlingk@example.com>:
> 
> > Last I checked, Stage Three was actually what they encourage people to
> > install form now.
> 
> It is, but as a user of Gentoo for about 8 years (starting in 2002,
> when our own Scott Robbins introduced it to me) before I switched to
> Ubuntu, it just felt wrong to skip all that bootstrapping goodness. ;)

Yeah, back in the old days we used to install from Stage 1 and that was
fine. But when they started recommending installs from Stage 3, the
first thing you'd do (after unpacking Stage 3) is download the latest
portage tree and then rebuild all the changed packages, which was almost
everything anyway. My point is that the only thing that has changed is
that you have a fully functioning system sooner.

Isn't that right? Since Gentoo features continuous updates, it's been a
very long time since I've done an install.

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