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. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
