Op 2011-03-07 11:55, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf:
Well I do- when I have to- and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
That's not good enough for me, hence I always do a clean install, and I am guaranteed it works.
I just think that it's important to have the option, and I'm writing that with the benefit of rather more than five years experience.
I meant that specific disk layout has been used for the last 5 years with great success - that is not my accumulative Linux experience. I have used Linux since the really 90's.
The real problem is not the underlying OS (i.e. the Linux kernel, X and so on) or the lower-level libraries (libc, gtk2) but is the layers of middleware that have accumulated and have to be "just right" before
Well here I can comment too. As I mentioned before, I haven't used Slackware since years. I'm glad to say that with regards to init scripts etc, Slackware hasn't really changed in the last 10+ years. It is still very simple and direct, with easy to understand and edit scripts. Unlike Ubuntu which uses Red Hat-ism init functions, then which to some other startup routines etc... It's like Ubuntu doesn't know what they like or want. But then, Ubuntu is targeted for the "desktop users" - which wouldn't give a rats ass about init scripts anyhow. :) I don't consider Programmers equal Desktop Users.
Anyway, as you said, sometimes upgrades work, and sometimes they don't. That is simply not good enough for me, so I'll rather stick to a clean install every time.
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