-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> Upgrading a Slackware system to anything (including a newer Kevin> Slackware system) is always "absolute madness", IMHO. Quite. The Slackware package system is very hands-off after you install the initial packages; I always ended up getting stuff from prep.ai.mit.edu and installing it myself, which was always a lot of fun. I don't think I ever got the uninstall option to work. Matter of fact, managing a Slackware system at all was always a lot of fun; at some point, I had to recompile XFree86. OTOH, I got an immense amount of Unix experience through it. I even brought my system through the a.out->ELF stage without nuking and rebooting. I would've killed for stow, though. (Thanks to whomever packaged it, BTW; helps me out a bunch in my /usr/local...). When I went to Debian, I backed up my /home directories, nuked the partition, and installed from scratch. There's really no better way to do it. - -- Graham Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME OK, PGP preferred "One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions ... like a state of sheer terror." - W. K. Hartmann -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBM+bUwiqNPSINiVE5AQFIgwP+JjqKogiTu0EiKnU4//fckECTiPXGW7Vw bglt9R4g6lZvUsvzqEqg3jCu9NyzsCS8NAbuQ4DQDGndB/d+E8gn7dTBv1rcCo+e JUsSFk4ff4xtJAaKj6jTjsoMt+lfivLDNmg9P6slgw3XvMqmNSyeOBCE0l5OaY02 92aelR0k/MM= =X+R9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .