Brian Nelson wrote: > > Aurelio Turco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Shepherd) writes: > > > > When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a > > > > "apt-get dist-upgrade"? > > > > > > Yup. > > > > > > > Or do I need to do some kind of reinstall? > > > > > > Nope. > > > > > > > Some will argue that it is good to do a complete reinstall > > occasionally, atleast on major distribution upgrades, as > > a kind of periodic spring cleaning (ensuring old and no > > longer needed files and directory structures etc get > > purged from the system). > > Distributions like Mandrake and Redhat seem to imply this. > > Debian seems to prefer otherwise? > > No reinstalls are ever needed with debian. This is not a Microsoft > OS. >
So, "apt-get dist-upgrade" automatically purges old and no longer needed files and directory structures?
