On 7/31/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > Releases are not very important for Gentoo, if you have a live
> > > internet connection (which is not REQUIRED, but will make your system
> > > a lot more useful with Gentoo) after the whole process you'll get the
> > > latest Gentoo anyway.
> > I think the idea is to skip the five hour gcc/glibc update by starting
> > from newer binaries in a hypothetical 2006.1 stage3.
> But you gotta wait months for new releases, while (like you said) it
> only take a few hours to update (if you WANNA update, because I still
> use gcc 3.4.6). And it can be done in the background, while you use
> the system anyway.
>
I must have hit the sweet spot. I installed (amd64) from the latest
stage3 I could find a few weeks ago and never paid much attention to
the gcc/glibc version. I'm on 3.4.6-r1, and I've never noticed any
compile problems, but then I've not tried emerging empty world. My
machine is too sodding fast to need that.
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