[PLUG] "Gender" issues

[Manny]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Matt Wallace <wallacms@cs.purdue.edu>
To: <plug@csociety.purdue.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] "Gender" issues


> > apt-get doesn't downgrade.
> 
> This isn't true.  Apt-get will happily retrieve and downgrade packages.
> I'm not sitting in front of my linux box right now, so I don't know the
> exact syntax, but it's something like "apt-get install foo/stable" or
> "apt-get install foo/1.2.3".  You're right that it's sometimes hard to
> find mirrors that keep the old packages, but some do.
> 
> BTW, WTF does "Gender" issues mean?  How does gender apply to linux
> distros?
> 
> 
> -Matt
> 
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