You can, but they remove old ebuilds from the rsync, even in stable.  So, if
I were to chose to keep a 1.2 system around for awhile, it is likely that it
would be quickly obsoleted.

BTW - why did it take MANY days for my post to arrive on the list???

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Wilson" <wilson at visi.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Source distributions like Gentoo and LFS?


> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:40:12PM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> > Are there any other Linux source distributions besides Gentoo and LFS?
I
> > like LFS, but it is too messy to maintain on a server.  I like Gentoo,
but I
> > am disenchanted with the use of rsync and the lack of source branching
for
> > the base system.  There is a potential that there will not be any
> > maintenance (other than incidental and short-term) along any line except
> > HEAD for that project.
>
> I just saw on the Gentoo page that you can now choose between stable and
> testing/unstable in the portage tree. Is that what you're talking about?
>
> There is also Sorcerer Linux (http://sorcerer.wox.org/)
>
> -Tim
>
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