Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

2005-12-15 Thread George Prowse
No, only the config files that are in a stage 3 should be left, some of those will be edited and some will have been upgraded so they should be left. It would be like emerge --unmerge --shallow world to take you back the that original state so then any major changes could be made without reinstalli

Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

2005-12-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
George Prowse wrote: yes but if you extracted a stage on to an already built system you would not only have the the mess there that you wanted to get rid of but also all your config files would revert back to older versions and you'd lose any changes made. ... because i'd rather not use depc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

2005-12-12 Thread George Prowse
On 12/12/05, Andrew Muraco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: George Prowse wrote:> After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to> reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after> any baselayout upgrade had been applied. Isn't that what the stages are, Barebone s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

2005-12-11 Thread Andrew Muraco
George Prowse wrote: After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after any baselayout upgrade had been applied. Isn't that what the stages are, Barebone systems? This script would enable two things: a per

Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

2005-12-11 Thread Curtis Napier
George Prowse wrote: After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after any baselayout upgrade had been applied. This script would enable two things: a person to rebuild his system after a library malfuncti

[gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

2005-12-11 Thread George Prowse
After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after any baselayout upgrade had been applied. This script would enable two things: a person to rebuild his system after a library malfunction and also if a person wan