Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Monday 29 Dec 2014 02:25:04 lee wrote: >> I tried out the latest Gentoo live DVD ... and I was surprised that the >> software it comes with is so old. Libreoffice 3.x? Seamonkey a couple >> versions behind? >> >> Is the software going to be more recent when I actually install? > > During installation you will run 'emerge --sync' which will update portage > with the latest and greatest for each package ebuild. Then 'emerge --update > --newuse --deep --ask world' will install the latest version of any package > you may have installed, or install thereafter in your system (like > libreoffice, etc.)
That's what I thought ... I tried 'emerge --sync' or so with the live system, and it seemed to receive lots of updates. But why use old software for a recent live DVD? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
