Gentoo question

[Stephen Bunn]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 15:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 14:53 +0200, Loïc Martin wrote:
> 
> > Btw, would you know if downloading portage (a few 30M files), distfiles/
> > (biiiig) and releases/x86/2006.0/stages is enough, or if I also need
> > experimental and grp?
> 
> You will need all of portage obviously
> All of distfiles is a LOOOOOOOOOOT of stuff, you are most unlikely to
> ever need 80% of that :-)
> The only stage you will need is the current one you plan to use, and
> that is likely to be the current stage 3 for your arch. No sense to d/l
> the sparc stages if you have x86 f'rinstance
> 
> If you don't use experimental, then don't d/l any of it.
> You won't need grp either unless you plan to run pre-compiled binaries
> and NOT compile them yourself. Unlikely = this is gentoo after all...
> 
> alan
Gentoo has changed alot over the past year.  The default installation
now starts from a stage3 tarball so you actually get a system up and
running very quickly.