> > 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. > I know, but the quote you removed was about using stage 3 to save time > to have a running system asap. If that's your objective, you're hardly > going to follow it up by compiling KDE and X from scratch, are you? I always have...
stage 3 gets me to a point where while I'm compiling X, KDE, qt, Gnome, and the rest of the world, I can use my computer. Especially since the first things I emerge are those I'm likely to use (mutt, irc client, etc.). -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key // Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things // than someone who hasn't. // -- Mark Twain
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