Starting from stage 1 & 2 allows you to build a box customized from the
ground up optimized for your hardware (assuming you've set the cflags
correctly before beginning).
IMHO, stage 3 is for those that don't want to take the lengthy build time
for some of the larger packages, i.e. X and kde/gnome, in order to have a
basic working gentoo system in a short timeframe.
I'm not sure where you get this from, since X and kde/gnome aren't IN a
stage-3 tarball.
Oops, my bad. Shows how many stage-3 installs I've done ;-)
As I stated before, iterative testing with several binary
distros and a stage-3 gentoo on this here laptop have shown that, even
starting with stage-3, gentoo is faster and more efficient.
I wasn't questioning whether gentoo would be faster and/or more efficient
than the other binary distros.
My point was that, for the most part, saying "start with stage 3" is like
saying "use a binary distrib". With stage 3 you're starting with
precompiled binaries that are built targeting someone else's hardware, not
your own.
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