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   Umar Said to All   
   bandwidth requirement to use gentoo   
   27 Dec 07 15:58:43   
   
   From: umarsaid@gmail.com   
      
   Hi,   
      
   I've been using Debian for 2 years. I often download newest version   
   software and compile it myself. Some programs compiles smoothly, some   
   don't. That is because the programs depend on new library, and installing   
   them can break my system. For example, today I want to install   
   exaile_0.2.11.1 and it eventually needs cairo >= 1.4.12 while the   
   installed one is 1.2.4.   
      
   I plan to use gentoo since it's versionless. But my network connection is   
   slow. If I have installed gentoo from CD, and then sync to the last state   
   gentoo, how many MByes data transfered? Is the source code downloaded by   
   diff only (like svn update) or a whole new version of source code?   
      
   TIA   
      
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