> > That sounds pretty good to me. So if I do a stage 3 install as per > > the current Gentoo docs plus 'emerge -e system' I will end up with the > > same thing that I did with a stage 1 install? I remember thinking > > that I was getting a deeper level of optimization by starting with > > stage 1. I can't remember the details anymore though. > > > > - Grant > > > > Yes, effectively it's the same thing. In both cases (Stage1 or Stage3 > + emerge -e system) you've built every package yourself. Starting with > Stage3 gives you a usable system right at the start, while with Stage1 > you need to spend a fairly large amount of time getting the system > ready. > > Also, if you start with Stage3, you may not even need to rebuild the > installed packages, as if it's been a little while since the Stage3 > image was created, there will be new versions of everything, so you'd > be rebuilding when you do a 'emerge -u system' anyways. > > HTH, > Mike
Nice. Is there a slick way to determine if there are any pre-compiled packages left on the system after the first 'emerge -u system'? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
