> from n952162: > > 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.=C2=A0 Of course, a trojan horse could be in that tarball > and squirrel itself away ... but then, I'm not supporting Fort Knox, > either...=C2=A0 that'll save some work ;-) What do you refer to by "bootstrap"? Do you mean setup.py in the portage tree? Tom
