On 05/20/20 23:58, Rich Freeman wrote:
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.
If I understand that correctly, using the stage3 tarball will give me a
fully functioning system from binaries, but I can convert that in one
fell swoop into sources by re-emerging everything, saving me the hassle
of the bootstrap. Of course, a trojan horse could be in that tarball
and squirrel itself away ... but then, I'm not supporting Fort Knox,
either... that'll save some work ;-)
