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 > > -- > Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: > Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.com > W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org > wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >