On 18/08/15 02:58, »Q« wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:46:44 +0200 > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Er, no. You don't. You really, really REALLY don't want to go Stage >> 1 :-) >> >> My second install was a stage 1, way back in the day when the stage 3s >> weren't fully usable out of the box yet. My first was a stage 2 (fully >> documented back then) and for the second one I decided to be brave. >> >> I did learn something, but it really wasn't worth the effort. > > For my second or third install I also used a stage 2, and I completely > agree with you. > > >
sort of ... conditions were different "in the beginning" a stage 1 was all there was. We used to sneer at those too soft to do it hard core :) When viable stage 3's became available, the handbook gradually moved to recommending a stage 3 then mandating it. In about 2000/2001 when I first started with gentoo (on a 486, moved from Redhat 4.0 from memory, took a whole week to download the sources via dialup, and 2 days to build the basic stage 3). The problem was that the build process was full of holes - there is a reason modern portage/emerge is as complicated as it is. A full stage one was consistent. After a few months of use inconsistencies would creep in and an emerge world -e became necessary to restore smooth functioning. Have not had to do that for a couple of years now ... don't miss it :) BillK
