no they are the stable packages, and you can also run unstable. rc is a release candidate for the distro version 1.4 as a whole, but the packages in portage are stable.
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:19:10 +1200 Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:00:48PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > and get gentoo-3stages-x86-1.4_rc4.iso > > Is this why you claim the packages are so up-to-date--because you're > running a release candidate, i.e. not a stable release? > > If this is the case, it's not a lot different to running something like > Debian's testing/unstable tree (or, for that matter, any other > distributions pre-release trees). So it would seem that the claims of > Gentoo having more up-to-date packages than other distributions might be > a little exaggerated. > > Cheers, > -mjg > -- > Matthew Gregan |/ > /| [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
