On 2016-03-19, David Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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)? > > I'm not a good Debian owner. I download and install 3rd party software. > I modify system configuration files. I'm too lazy to identify and > understand all of the ramifications of the two prior sentences, so > reverting the changes so that a dist-upgrade can work cleanly is not > practical. Basically, I'm lazy. I want to pop in a disk/USB, get to a > known good state, and then start my butchery all over again. ;-) >
I understand what you're saying and I'm fine with it. Still--caeteris paribus--the dist-upgrade process is a good, known, proven path to moving from one stable release to the next. To suggest otherwise is wrong. -- 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
