From: jmcbride@mail-on.us   
      
   Umar Said wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
      
   Depends on what you are using Gentoo for...it can be a few hundred megabytes   
   to multiple gigabytes for a desktop system.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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   Jerry McBride (jmcbride@mail-on.us)   
      
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