Move, or reinstall new?

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 12:01:59 PDT 2004


On Wed, 5 May 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
> In a 1.3K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On 05/05/04 15:53, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > >
> > >I'm reading this as:
> > >"Don't do a fresh install because upgrades always mess things up."
> > >
> > >Surely that's not what you meant...
> >
> > well, sorta.  basically, don't upgrade, don't reinstall.  just manually
> > upgrade RPMs  :)
>
> Boy, that says a whole lot about the utility of using RPM as a
> system package manager. Not.

Actually that is quite high praise of using RPM.  I don't trust
installers.  I trust RPMs.

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