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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> On Monday 29 Dec 2014 02:25:04 lee wrote: |
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>> I tried out the latest Gentoo live DVD ... and I was surprised that the |
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>> software it comes with is so old. Libreoffice 3.x? Seamonkey a couple |
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>> versions behind? |
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>> Is the software going to be more recent when I actually install? |
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> During installation you will run 'emerge --sync' which will update portage |
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> with the latest and greatest for each package ebuild. Then 'emerge --update |
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> --newuse --deep --ask world' will install the latest version of any package |
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> you may have installed, or install thereafter in your system (like |
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> libreoffice, etc.) |
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That's what I thought ... I tried 'emerge --sync' or so with the live |
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system, and it seemed to receive lots of updates. |
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But why use old software for a recent live DVD? |
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Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons |
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might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. |
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