I am sorry for posting this here but I didn't know where to post it. I noticed that I am not the only person prefering a good, clean stage 1 installation. Many Gentoo users (all I know), prefer stage 1. Please that it back. We really use it.
Uhm? The stages are still there... http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2006.1/stages/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/amd64/2006.1/stages/ etc. etc. If you are asking whether we'll support stage1 installs again, then the answer is no.