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On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> William Hubbs wrote: |
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> As a user, if a person hasn't upgraded in about 6 months, they may as well |
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> reinstall anyway. That is usually the advice given on -user. After a year |
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> without updating, it is certainly easier and most likely faster to |
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> reinstall. |
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Except for the fact that while you upgrade, you still have a usable |
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system. Reinstallation means a massive time-sink during which your |
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machine is completely unusable. This is not an option for a lot of |
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people. |
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If -user is regularly giving that kind of advice, I think you guys are |
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making a huge mistake. |
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I'm not going to support this kind of max-6-month-upgrade life cycle |
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for Gentoo. We're effectively driving our users away to distros like |
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Ubuntu that allow you to upgrade every LTS release instead of |
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constantly or every 6 months. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |
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