* Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Mar 13 17:08 -0500]:
> With a desktop system, every few years there seems to be a reason to
> reinstall, so far mostly due to buying new laptops, disks, and/or the
> incompetence of hardware service people who "help" me by putting
> Windows XP back on the system while they have it helpless in their
> clutches.
Even then, I don't bother, prefering to use rsync to copy everything
over to the "new" hardware, making the configurations I need to and
continuing on.
By default packages are just removed and not purged which leaves a lot
of extra config files around. On occasion I purge the packages with a
'c' status.
- Nate >>
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