On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 06:40:18PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/18/2016 02:13 PM, Curt wrote: > >I have never had a failed dist-upgrade. Of course, you gotta follow the > >goddamn directions, do about five or ten minutes of reading of the > >appropriate material, which isn't too much to ask I wouldn't think. > > > >This wipe business strikes me as vaguely scatological. Clean and > >cruftless and wiped (and do they wash their hands fifty times a day > >too, just to be impeccable)? > > I'm not a good Debian owner. I download and install 3rd party software. I > modify system configuration files.
As do most of us. An upgrade won't overwrite configuration file changes whereas with a new install you do lose them! -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.
