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From: Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 liveCD
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:40:30
Message-Id: 342e1090607311432y57c08fdh3b5995c7d5e248af@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 liveCD by kashani
1 On 7/31/06, kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > Daniel da Veiga wrote:
3 >
4 > > Releases are not very important for Gentoo, if you have a live
5 > > internet connection (which is not REQUIRED, but will make your system
6 > > a lot more useful with Gentoo) after the whole process you'll get the
7 > > latest Gentoo anyway.
8 > >
9 >
10 > I think the idea is to skip the five hour gcc/glibc update by starting
11 > from newer binaries in a hypothetical 2006.1 stage3.
12 >
13
14 But you gotta wait months for new releases, while (like you said) it
15 only take a few hours to update (if you WANNA update, because I still
16 use gcc 3.4.6). And it can be done in the background, while you use
17 the system anyway.
18
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20 Daniel da Veiga
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