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Dale wrote: |
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> While I like your example, if this were to happen and a couple other |
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> things has been updated, like for example expat a while back and other |
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> similar update nightmares, wouldn't a reinstall be easier and most |
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> likely recommended anyway? I have seen this recommended and even made |
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> that recommendation on -user a few times. I would also do a reinstall |
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> on my own system if I had been gone for 6 months or more. With the |
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> updates coming pretty fast for most things, you would most likely |
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> recompile most everything on the system anyway. Save the configs and |
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> the world file and just start over from a very fresh stage tarball. |
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> It is good to look out for those braves souls that would try to update |
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> anyway but thought it worth a mention. Would upgrading be recommended? |
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> < back to my hole > |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Guys, if your Gentoo install is 6 months old, you're screwed anyway. |
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This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with |
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being 3.5 weeks out of date. Might have been quicker to re-install. |
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Ooh well. |
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Andrew |
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