On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:15:25 +1300 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Then please consider very carefully what you are proposing to do. > Gentoo stable is just that, and once you have it installed it will go and go, > but if you want to install or update anything of any consequence later you > will be in for a fair sized download, e.g. KDE is ~100Megs of source code.
thats misleading: you are in for a download of reasonable size whether you download the source or the binary. as a quick example the source for kdebase-3.3.5 is 17M, the binary package is 23M, thats both compressed with bzip2. the point is that on a dialup connection it will be tedious to update kde, whether you are doing binaries or source. I have not done a thorough analysis of the package sizes between binary & source, but please don't say that bandwidth is a barrier to updating gentoo, on the above package less bandwidth is needed. > New kernels are about 35 - 40 megs. ( btw, the combo of linux-2.6.11 and > xorg-6.8.2 is a real joy ) -- Nick Rout
