On Wednesday 13 May 2009 16:16:10 Stroller wrote: > In my case, reinstallation would be a huge pain. I would be massively > worrying about which services on the machine I need to configure > again, and whether everything I needed had been backed up properly. I > have forgotten the original procedures I followed setting up many of > these services, and it could easily take a week to set the machine up > from scratch.
But whether you reinstall (backing up and replacing old configs then runnign diff of course) or incrementally upgrade, and $SERVICE breaks, either way you equally do not know about it till $USER complains. It's just that I remember all too well what it took to get through those many various blockers. More often than not I was once of the first to run into them - I sync and update daily - but I'd hate to do it all again all in one go, especially when all my buddies here have forgotten the procedure. Horses for courses I guess. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
