[Techtalk] Debian versus GenToo

Finne Boonen hennar at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 23:53:00 EST 2004


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:08:32 +1000, Kathryn Andersen
<kat_lists at katspace.com> wrote:

> What I don't understand is why people seem to assume that Debian/testing
> doesn't exist -- the comparisons always seem to be between stable and
> unstable...
it takes to long for things to get into testing :)

Finne

> Another question: if I do find that there's a desired package which
> isn't in GenToo, what would be my best course of action?

Same as any other distro, compile it from source yourself, if you want
to keep your install clean, make an ebuild for it and use emerge just
as you'd do with portage packages

Finne


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