Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:13:34AM +0000, Aurelio Turco wrote:
> 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?
Yes, we do. There are tools (like 'cruft') that can help you do that
sort of spring-cleaning. Reinstalling is really using an enormous hammer
to crack a rather small nut.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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