On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 5:52 PM n952162 <n952...@web.de> wrote: > > The beauty of gentoo is that it's source. But that's just a fantasy if > I use the stage3 tarball. > I think.
The stage3 tarball is what you get if you build everything using the default options. If you change the options, then an emerge -e @world will rebuild everything using your new options. That is equivalent to what you get from a stage1 install. The main difference is that you aren't messing around with chroots for days because you don't have a functional system while everything builds the first time. Ie, stage1->stage3 gets you the same thing as stage3->stage3. And really unless you REALLY care about your CFLAGS you get 99% of the benefit just sticking with the original stage3 and just rebuilding anything you change USE flags for. Over time it will all get rebuilt anyway using your preferences. -- Rich
