On 2016-03-18, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: >> I agree. The dist upgrade was problematic and I finally had to wipe the root >> partition for a clean install. Thankfully, from my Caldera days, I use /opt > > Hmm.. just to give a counter-point, almost all my current Debian > installs are the result of a stream of upgrades+clones from the first > install I performed, back in 2006. >
I have never had a failed dist-upgrade. Of course, you gotta follow the goddamn directions, do about five or ten minutes of reading of the appropriate material, which isn't too much to ask I wouldn't think. This wipe business strikes me as vaguely scatological. Clean and cruftless and wiped (and do they wash their hands fifty times a day too, just to be impeccable)? > Stefan > > -- Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
