From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Feb 3 04:40:53 2010 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AfterLogic WebMail Pro PHP X-Originating-IP: 217.40.83.198 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: From: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk Cc: "mint Mailing-List" Subject: Re: [MiNT] Gentoo FreeMiNT Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:37:36 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from Quoted-Printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o139eqbB025834 It's very difficult to revert to a backup if the system is trashed and all you have left is TOS. Been there, done that with far too many systems. I've done Ubuntu updates that trashed the system so bad it took two weeks of solid effort to get them back to usable. Yes, I have updated XaAES and mint.prg but that is very different to wiping all the installed packages and installing from a new distro system or wiping the entire partition and starting from scratch. I am just lost as to why effort should be spent on creating a new distro when there are so many other aspects that need work.