On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:20:58 +0100 Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote:
> > Well, yeah, your mileage may vary. > Quite, if you can get your existing installation to only run a > minimal number of rebuilds to arrive at an upgraded toolchain, then > the benefit of reinstalling wouldn't be there. This could have been > the case on an average year, when python deprecations didn't > accelerate and EAPI didn't change. If however you end up tying up > yourself in knots with subsequent python upgrades and difficult to > resolve conflicts, then the pain Vs gain calculus changes. I was already wondering why so many things happened during the (comparatively) short time I didn't watch. Looks like people have been in lockdown with plenty of time to come around with new things. Fortunately, the base installation I have to update doesn't contain many applications (e.g., no X involved). Everything sits on an NFS server with ZFS below it, so it is quite easy to do snaphots and go back and forth between them, and we have plenty to CPU power to rebuild things. OTOH, the orchestration to have the setup re-done in a fully automated way is still under development, so I definitely wanted to try updating before really starting over. cu Gerrit
