From: ian.c.smith@btinternet.com
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage on dial-up connection?
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:53:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C828D47.8050902@btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E16hTbS-00051L-00.2002-03-03-10-52-31@mail18.svr.pol.co.uk
To echo what others have said, for keeping up-to-date, Gentoo is much
lower maintenance than a binary distribution. I am a long time Debian
user, but it does get a little irritating to download all my X binaries
every time someone fixes a typo in the Alpha port, for example.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-03 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-03 10:51 [gentoo-dev] Portage on dial-up connection? Sami Al-Sayed
2002-03-03 18:35 ` George Shapovalov
2002-03-03 20:53 ` ian.c.smith [this message]
2002-03-03 23:51 ` Dan Armak
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