Re: sid dist-upgrade will remove Xorg and hold back replacement
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 23:08:39 -1000
Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > As often happens, I'd fallen behind on upgrading lately, and
> > > had some catching up to do.
>
> > I have three sids, one of which is upgraded almost daily, the
> > others in half-gigabyte chunks and with a certain amount of hope.
> > It *is* sid, after all.
>
> Having more than one system partition sounds like an excellent
> way to avoid the foot-gun.
>
I'm not that worried. No data lives in the systems (they are both
portables) and I keep backups of /etc and dpkg --get-selections. I did
need to reinstall the laptop once, it's no great trauma.
--
Joe
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