On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > William Hubbs wrote: > As a user, if a person hasn't upgraded in about 6 months, they may as well > reinstall anyway. That is usually the advice given on -user. After a year > without updating, it is certainly easier and most likely faster to > reinstall.
Except for the fact that while you upgrade, you still have a usable system. Reinstallation means a massive time-sink during which your machine is completely unusable. This is not an option for a lot of people. If -user is regularly giving that kind of advice, I think you guys are making a huge mistake. I'm not going to support this kind of max-6-month-upgrade life cycle for Gentoo. We're effectively driving our users away to distros like Ubuntu that allow you to upgrade every LTS release instead of constantly or every 6 months. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
