On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
Third kind of cruft, BTW - are those things that are installed from unofficial sources.
To each his own - I prefer doing a clean install every now and then regardless of the OS.
I find there are two scenarios in the systems I work with 1. An openSUSE system that is running a "clean" install as a basic system with only the standard repos enabled and updated. Usually this is the workhorse system doing server duty, or office desktop. 2. An openSUSE system that is running a home desktop type install with loads of extras installed from Packman and 3rd party (eg Google repos, Skype, Teamviewer, VMWare Player, games from indie developers etc) System 1 upgrades fairly easily provided they aren't bodged systems that are running non-standard stuff, and you read and apply the release notes steps for each upgrade. I've never really had an issue with these systems. System 2 is very difficult to upgrade, and for all the work it takes to sort out the endless issues, it's easier, cleaner and infinitely faster to backup, format the root partition, and reinstall. On these systems, I'm up and running again in 10 minutes, and spend maybe 30 minutes re-adding the repos and reinstalling 3rd party apps. C. -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org