On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:40:02 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Myself, I don't consider that either a stage 1 or stage 3 leaves me with > more than a minimally functional system after the initial install, but a > stage 3 leaves me with a *higher functioning* minimal install than a > stage 1 does.
A stage 3 install doesn't give you any more than a stage 1. all it means is you skip some laborious and time-consuming steps in the handbook, you end up in the same place. > But at least after a stage 3, I don't have to be *uncomfortable* while > I'm waiting to get my system up to my personal spec-- I can still *use* > Mozilla, even if it's compiled with Mail, and Composer, and IRC, while I > wait for it to recompile with the -moz*** USE flags. You can't, stage 3 doesn't even include X. However, you can use the GRP packages with a stage 3 installation, because the flags are all at default, so you can merge your preferred DE, mail and browser as binary packages in a few minutes. If you like ~arch, you don't even need an emerge --emptytree after the system is running, as emerge -uDN world after changing KEYWORDS and USE will update just about everything anyway. -- Neil Bothwick Any program which runs right is obsolete.
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