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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 19:31:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509031931.07965.uwix@iway.na> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050902224422.GF22150@lugmen.org.ar>

On 02 September 2005 23:44, Fernando Canizo wrote:
> El 01/sep/2005 a las 22:51 -0300, Justin me decía:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to
> > difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is
> > there anything like the Packages CD but more :)
> >
> > Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I
> > don't mind paying for such a CD/DVD.
>
> No, don't know, but in the meantime you can use 'getdelta' (emerge
> getdelta). I know a couple of dialup users that were very satisfied
> with this.

I concur. It usually speeds things up. 

Uwe

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-03 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-02  1:51 [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd Justin Kelly
2005-09-02  2:55 ` Nick Rout
2005-09-02 16:57 ` inferno
2005-09-02 22:44 ` Fernando Canizo
2005-09-03 18:31   ` Uwe Thiem [this message]
2005-09-04 23:20     ` Justin Kelly
2005-09-05  4:55       ` Nick Rout

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