Dale wrote: > > While I like your example, if this were to happen and a couple other > things has been updated, like for example expat a while back and other > similar update nightmares, wouldn't a reinstall be easier and most > likely recommended anyway? I have seen this recommended and even made > that recommendation on -user a few times. I would also do a reinstall > on my own system if I had been gone for 6 months or more. With the > updates coming pretty fast for most things, you would most likely > recompile most everything on the system anyway. Save the configs and > the world file and just start over from a very fresh stage tarball. > > It is good to look out for those braves souls that would try to update > anyway but thought it worth a mention. Would upgrading be recommended? > > < back to my hole > > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Guys, if your Gentoo install is 6 months old, you're screwed anyway. This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with being 3.5 weeks out of date. Might have been quicker to re-install. Ooh well. Andrew
