Clay Daniels <[email protected]> writes: > I'm impressed with your patience, Greg. I always do a fresh install, > mostly just writing over the one before, but sometimes I use Gparted > on a usb stick to get it really clean. It gives me a chance to > install fresh copies, or even versions, of my basic apps, like > foxfire, hexchat/irssi, thunderbird, etc.
It's not that I'm more patient, just with different things. I use etcmanage to deal with /etc, mostly automatically, and I use pkg_rolling-replace to replace packages. So my system is actually very up to date. What I don't have the patience for is redoing everything after a fresh install and having to figure out what's broken and fix it one at a time. I believe that the cost of such re-install work is huge, more than people estimate, and the cost of careful upgrades is not so bad.
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