Yeah, I've helped a couple of dialup users using the same method...the problem is updating but as you say it'd be the same for any distro. So there you go, as Nick has made clear, dialup shouldn't stop you from using Gentoo :)
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:23, Nick Rout wrote: > Re dialup, neither is any other distro any good if you rely solely on > dialup to install and maintain your distro. People on dialup generally > beg/steal/borrow a CD to install. Anyone who wants to do the same with > gentoo can do so. Its simply a matter of finding someone with an up to > date portage tree and dumping /usr/portage on a cd, then dumping the > contents of the cd onto the 56kuser's hard drive. Bang, up to date > emerge scripts and source code. I have done this for several people and > it saves heaps of time. > > Then all you have to fear is an update to xfree or kde, which will take > a while to download. But it will for binary packages too. > > Anyway, 56k with gentoo is no nore restrictive than any other distro > which gets updated frequently - and face it who wants old versions when > updates are released. I see binary distro users fluffing about looking > for their distro's binaries for kde-latest when I have done emerge -u > world and been running it for days or weeks. -- Simon Hansman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
