On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 09:48:54PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> I'm a huge fan of clean reinstalls. I view them as spring cleaning, and
> if I do them every 6 months that's fine with me.

Then why are you using De??an in the first place? The main value of Debian
above Red Hat and the like lies precisely in dist-upgrade: that you can keep
a system working for a long time, and it will do the right thing for
conffiles, systemd-like conf [non-]handling excluded (per a recent
debian-devel thread). Earliest of my extant systems was installed in 2002,
its original hardware long since bites the dust.

There _is_ a company that makes systems you need to reinstall every 6
months, but I don't think its name deserves to be mentioned in a polite
group of people...


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