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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:32:22
Message-Id: 201003061731.53117.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Friday 05 March 2010 20:22:44 Duncan wrote:
2 > Ed W posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:33:43 +0000 as excerpted:
3 > > I think I have mostly upgraded my machines, but I completely agree - I
4 > > sometimes let some old virtual machines sit unbooted for a year and then
5 > > suddenly want to use them and bring them up to date and occasionally
6 > > this can be a right old pain in the derrier...
7 >
8 > Surely, if you've let it go for a year, it's about as easy to reinstall
9 > from a new stage-3 as it is to try to update from where you are?
10
11 tell that to my headless machines. shout at their butts.
12 -mike

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