On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:59:14 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > > 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.
> No, there isn't. This laptop was built with a stage 3 tarball, > everything else was compiled from source. I know because I watched kde > build for 16 hours. Read the quote you removed > > > > 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. You clearly were prepared to take the lengthy build time for KDE etc. But others don't have that luxury, like when I built my laptop, so Stage 3 + GRP does the whole job in less than 10% of the time you spent on KDE alone... not that this has anything to do with the original topic :) -- Neil Bothwick Megabyte: (n.) more than you can comprehend and less than you'll need.
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