On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 09:05:30PM -0500, green wrote: > Steve Litt wrote at 2014-09-29 20:30 -0500: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:13:10 -0400 > > Stephen Allen <marathon.duran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Also, in > > > terms of upgrading a Debian System - Are you aware that prior to each > > > major release, Debian releases a comprehensive upgrade treatise that > > > covers any quirks and describing hoops one may need to do. It's pretty > > > much required reading. > > > > I'm not a very detail oriented person, and reading that would be pretty > > useless for me. Which is why I'm not going to Funtoo. So if I can avoid > > that reading by doing a fresh install, it saves me time. > > For me, reading the release notes and then upgrading between major > versions is *much* faster than reinstalling. In fact, I consider > working rolling upgrades a very important feature because it saves so > much time and effort.
Agreed. There always seems to be one config file you forget about! :) In fact, a fresh install can be quite a burden --- think of /etc/aliases, MTA config, .bashrc aliases etc, grub idiosyncrasies which you slaved over etc. etc. etc. (no doubt I've missed a couple.) For every new install I've done I'm fairly sure I've had to google or check an existing system for the syntax of some configuration file or something. No, do yourself a favour and install just once! It really does save time! Oh, just remembered the /etc/vim/vimrc and the local .vimrc. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140930025745.GD21456@tal