On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:53, Shawn wrote: > 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).
I just think it's cool to rebuild a system while it's up and in use. I suppose you could just Ghost a second HDD running any other OS, but somehow, it just isn't the same... > 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. Like I said, I see it the same way. And really, Linux or not, any system that's just used for play/testing should be rebuilt pretty regularly anyway. This is especially true for Gentoo, since the USE flags will change things so heavily. I mean, with RPMs, or whatever, there really is to +gtk or +qt. And sometimes those things seem to have huge effects. Kev. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
