6. Stage Three
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## 6. Stage Three

You have installed your beloved ports during stage two. Some ports require a little bit of configuration. This is what stage three, the post-configuration is for. I could have integrated this post-configuration at the end of the `stage_2.sh` script. However, I think there is a conceptual difference between installing a port and modifying its out-of-the-box configuration that warrants a separate stage.

I have chosen to implement stage three as a `Makefile` because this allows easy selection of what you want to configure simply by running:

`#` `make -f stage_3.mk `target``

As with `stage_2.sh` make sure you have `stage_3.mk` available after booting the new system, either by putting it on a shared partition or copying it somewhere on the new system.

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