Hello Gentooers!
Sry to interject but I must say that I really like the fact that portage
cleans out a lot of the old ebuilds.
In fact I'd like to see more house keeping.
One possible suggestion would be the addition of a package
("portage-archives" maybe ?) that extracts the old ebuilds to your portage
overlay,
hopefully maintaining categories. Then pick what ever ya want.
This would help the gentoo rsync mirrors and still satisfy those that
crave the features/semantics of old. :)
Thanks and Happy Gentooing!(Isn't that a national holiday yet!?)
j
Claes Wallin said:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:44:47 -0700
> "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One of my
>> big beefs with debian is you can only really install the latest
>> version of the software, and you can't downgrade without having the
>> older deb packages there already. Gentoo you just emerge the version
>> you want. A *very* powerful (and overlooked) feature I think.
>
> Hmm. "apt-get install package=ve.rs.io-n" always worked fine for me. And
> Debian keeps old packages a little longer than the portage tree does.
>
> /Clacke
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