Hi Alan, Nachricht vom Dienstag, 24. Juni 2003, 16:44:47:
>>> I was asked to show Gentoo in my local LUG, to make a >>> Demo-Installation or something like this. >>> As the place where we meet has no Internet to speak of (64kbit >>> single ISDN) and the meetings are pretty short (3hours), it >>> would be hard to show a full gentoo Installation. >> Show upgrading a simple, small paket instead. > Also show them how you can install any version (well, any version in > portage) of that package, and upgrade and downgrade at will. One of > my big beefs with debian is you can only really install the latest > version of the software, and you can't downgrade without having the > older deb packages there already. Gentoo you just emerge the > version you want. A *very* powerful (and overlooked) feature I > think. The problem is, that many packages are IMO thrown out of portage much to early... Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
