Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

[Aurelio Turco <azt@bom.gov.au>]

Brian Nelson wrote:
> 
> Aurelio Turco <azt@bom.gov.au> writes:
> 
> > Brian Nelson wrote:
> > >
> > > DashepDS@netscape.net (David Shepherd) writes:
> > > > When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a
> > > > "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
> > >
> > > Yup.
> > >
> > > > Or do I need to do some kind of reinstall?
> > >
> > > Nope.
> > >
> >
> > Some will argue that it is good to do a complete reinstall
> > occasionally, atleast on major distribution upgrades, as
> > a kind of periodic spring cleaning (ensuring old and no
> > longer needed files and directory structures etc get
> > purged from the system).
> > Distributions like Mandrake and Redhat seem to imply this.
> > Debian seems to prefer otherwise?
> 
> No reinstalls are ever needed with debian.  This is not a Microsoft
> OS.
> 

So, "apt-get dist-upgrade" automatically purges
old and no longer needed files and directory structures?