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Gentoo prepares ’stages’ which are tarballs of whole systems, there are three stages and they each have a unique role) so I don’t need the network anyway. At least, for all I know I don’t.

: it’s about mirrorin

According to Wikipedia, “In computing, a mirror is an exact copy of a data set. On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site.” When you try to install a new package into your Fedora installation, either using PackageKit or Yum, it tries to fetch the packages from an Internet site along with the libraries and other software required for it, and install it on your computer. Now software like OpenOffice.org or OpenArena are very big and along with all their dependencies, the download size may be in the order of hundreds of megabytes.