On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 12:48 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > why are you reinstalling instead of updating? > > I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it > spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating individual > packages), and I'd get compatibility problems (changes between versions > of things, there'd be revoked packages, etc). It always took me longer > to sort that out, than a quick fresh install with a few tweaks.
It can take a while certainly, but any compatibility problems I've had tend to be because of packages changing between versions, and that's the same whether you upgrade or reinstall (I assume you don't wipe all your ~/.config or ~/.local when doing this). poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
