On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 07:36 (-0700), Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
On Wed September 23 2026 00:54:12 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
I find this thread very interresting as I learn a lot about apt & friends.
But would it not be easier (and faster) to reinstall cleanly?
If a system has only be used for a little while then a wipe and reinstall can be easier, although there is little to be learned from doing so.
A system that has been heavily used and customized can be wiped and reinstalled and then rebuilt from backups, but that can take a week compared to an hour or two (hands-on) fixing a problem with installed packages.
Imagine having to rebuild TDE's build system and git and bug tracking and website and mail server and mailing lists from backups after a wipe and reinstall!
Mike,
just out of curiosity... why would you want to rebuild all that stuff (build system, git, ...)? Is it all on the same partition as the OS, and gets wiped when you wipe the OS partition?
If it is all on that partition, would it not be judicious (in the future) to have a partition just for the distro files, and another one for all these other things?
Jim