I might concede that it is a hold over, but there will almost always be a time where a rebuild is faster than trying to "fix" a live system (IMO). Take IPCop for example (I know how much you love it). If I mess something up with it, and it'll take me longer than 20 minutes to clean up my mess, I won't bother. It only takes me 15 minutes to install it from scratch, and my rules are basic enough (on my home system) that I can recreate them in about 5 minutes. This same balance comes into play with mainstream servers. If it's going to take me 4 days to figure out how to fix a problem (or clean up a mess I've made), then a 3 day compile time isn't that big of a deal - IF it can be done with a minimum of down time.
That's one nice thing about Linux... If I have a messed up X install, so what. My main services still run and I can choose when/how long it takes me to clean it up. My thoughts. Shawn On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:05, Kevin Anderson wrote: > > I did do an emerge -C for KDE and X, which removed most of it. �But I > > have some installed packages that are still compiled with X and KDE > > support and such. �Maybe I'm still too microsoftish, but I like a fresh, > > clean start > > Understandable. �I feel the same way, but I've been told that it IS just a > holdover from the MS days... _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
