previously on this list Riccardo Mottola contributed: > Yes, sysmerge is really neat.
Perhaps I should expand as to why if it has been so long without him using. sysmerge handles everything in /etc! via etc??.tgz and xetc??.tgz and lets you do quick diffs (which I shamelessly copied from for my install scripts, thanks Antoine) rather than check later or drop to commandline like apt. So yes you do need to keep an eye on current or instead you can now use packages kindly made by mtier for stable and almost never *need* to reboot unless you want to, so yes you do have apt-get functionality for a year at a time and most likely going by the past without reboots if you want and then the upgrade will be quicker with no difference to following the upgrade procedure to avoid problems on debian. Now try it out, go on get a FIX ;-) -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) _______________________________________________________________________
