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In response to: Stage 1&2 is going the way of the dodo?

xyon [Visitor] — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:02:19 +0000

Ah, I read the article in it's entirety with a slower heart rate, and this decision doesn't seem so drastic.. sorry for the over reaction all ;)

So anyway, there are no benefits from doing stage1/2 compared to stage3?

/me hops off to the forums

In response to: Stage 1&2 is going the way of the dodo?

xyon [Visitor] — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:57:02 +0000

What? I thought being able to build from stage1 was a halmark of Gentoo! Don't tell me this functionality is being taken away! A bootstrap.sh and emerge -e system on a modern system takes very little time, I can't understand the demand to eliminate this with the benefits of keeping it.

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Ivan Yosifov [Visitor] — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:17:21 +0000

Ah, all is ok then :)

In response to: Stage 1&2 is going the way of the dodo?

lisa [Member] — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:55:32 +0000

No. Gentoo has always been "emerge -uD world" and you're up to date.

From what I gather if you were to perform another install the recommended method would be via stage 3.

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Ivan Yosifov [Visitor] — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:08:14 +0000

I hope that this doesn't mean that users who have installed from stage1 two years ago are expected to reinstall to be "supported".

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lisa [Member] — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:17:54 +0000

i wouldn't change the docs now, just would be nice to not have to officially support it.

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jkt [Visitor] — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:23:47 +0000

Nope, that shouldn't happen, IMHO. We *don't* want to nuke all the references to stage{1,2}, just move them away from Handbook.

It wouldn't be wise to criple existing documentation...