Re: Migrating from Slackware to Debian?
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>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Buhr <buhr@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
Kevin> Upgrading a Slackware system to anything (including a newer
Kevin> Slackware system) is always "absolute madness", IMHO.
Quite. The Slackware package system is very hands-off after you
install the initial packages; I always ended up getting stuff from
prep.ai.mit.edu and installing it myself, which was always a lot of
fun. I don't think I ever got the uninstall option to work. Matter
of fact, managing a Slackware system at all was always a lot of fun;
at some point, I had to recompile XFree86.
OTOH, I got an immense amount of Unix experience through it. I even
brought my system through the a.out->ELF stage without nuking and
rebooting. I would've killed for stow, though. (Thanks to whomever
packaged it, BTW; helps me out a bunch in my /usr/local...).
When I went to Debian, I backed up my /home directories, nuked the
partition, and installed from scratch. There's really no better way
to do it.
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