Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Mar 13 17:08 -0500]:
With a desktop system, every few years there seems to be a reason to
reinstall, so far mostly due to buying new laptops, disks, and/or the
incompetence of hardware service people who "help" me by putting
Windows XP back on the system while they have it helpless in their
clutches.
Even then, I don't bother, prefering to use rsync to copy everything
over to the "new" hardware, making the configurations I need to and
continuing on.
By default packages are just removed and not purged which leaves a lot
of extra config files around. On occasion I purge the packages with a
'c' status.
I normally don't, either. The upgrade from Sarge to Etch was my first
re-install ever. I have been running Debian since Bo, which was about
eight, or nine years ago IIRC. I have been through several system
upgrades and hard disc changes, but I just move the HD to the new
system, or copy it to a new HD and install that. The only reason that I
did a re-install this time was the large amount of cruft that had
accumulated. In retrospewct, it may have made the change to udev and
XOrg easire, but people doing recent upgrades seem not to be having
trouble with that either. Now that I am using aptitude, instead of
apt-get, I am hoping that this will not be necessary in another eight,
or nine years.
Debian rocks!
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Marc Shapiro
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