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Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released

Posted Aug 30, 2006 22:38 UTC (Wed) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)
In reply to: Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released by flewellyn
Parent article: Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released

And have you got a way to tell the system which packages you prefer pre-built, and if not found revert to local build? Does all that work for upgrades too, or just first install? Still curious..

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Posted Aug 30, 2006 22:48 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

Yes, you can use options to Portage that request binary packages, choose from a repository other than the defaults, and so on. It's very configurable.