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Old 6th December 2008
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
That was my point. In downloading/installing the source & recompiling, roughly 1.5GB of disk space will be consumed. I know, I do it on a weekly basis.
I apply errata patches on a.. case by case basis.. the kernel source does not consume that much space.

You do not need to recompile the user land, no libraries.. or utilities.. need to be installed, programs do not link with the kernel ocicat.
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