On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:22:49PM +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: > 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...
True, but in general you can at least downgrade a version or two if something messes up. I remember more than once searching around for debian mirrors that hadn't updated when I needed the old version of postgres or something like that. Oh well, each distro has it's place though right? :) -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list