I hope I used the right terms in the subject line.
I installed stage 3 from the live CD because I had to build a custom
kernel to support my NIC.
The system is up and running now and the NIC works fine.
Whenever I do an 'emerge' the source is downloaded and compiled and
installed. The live CD is not mounted, it's not even in the drive.
None of the packages that I've emerged have come from the CD.
I believe that the only thing that came from the CD was the kernel source.

I think I've acheived my goal of having everything built from scratch
from source, not binaries. How can I tell? If this is not what I have then
what do I need to do to get my system to work that way?

Jeff Fox wrote:
> I hope I used the right terms in the subject line.
> I installed stage 3 from the live CD because I had to build a custom
> kernel to support my NIC.
> The system is up and running now and the NIC works fine.
> Whenever I do an 'emerge' the source is downloaded and compiled and
> installed. The live CD is not mounted, it's not even in the drive.
> None of the packages that I've emerged have come from the CD.
> I believe that the only thing that came from the CD was the kernel source.
>
> I think I've acheived my goal of having everything built from scratch
> from source, not binaries.

If you've compiled every package that needs compilation, then yes you've
got the equivalent of a stage 1 installed system.

> How can I tell?

Does it really matter?

> If this is not what I have then
> what do I need to do to get my system to work that way?

$ emerge -e world

This will usually recompile *everything* you've got on your computer
(unless you've used '--oneshot' or messed with /var/cache/ebd/world).

But again, other than being able to say you've compiled everything on
your system, does it really matter?

--
Ben M.

>> If this is not what I have then
>> what do I need to do to get my system to work that way?
>
> $ emerge -e world
>
> This will usually recompile *everything* you've got on your computer
> (unless you've used '--oneshot' or messed with /var/cache/ebd/world).
>
> But again, other than being able to say you've compiled everything on
> your system, does it really matter?

I'm just curious more than anything.

I'm looking at Gentoo as a way to get out of dependency hell.
I don't have to brag to anybody about compiling anything. Frankly nobody
cares.