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Originally Posted by TadW
So you are saying when you upgrade from Sarge to Etch, you only need to upgrade the OS but not the packages?
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Hm. The OS is in the packages, right? What you say is unintelligable to me. If I update a certain package, I have to update that package. That's obviously true. But I don't have to "reinstall" "all" other packages just because of an update.
I'm running debian testing since around 2004 and keeping it up-to-date using dist-upgrade, so my system went through multiple debian releases. And it very rarely happens that I have to update 3rd-party software manually, be it manually installed debs, stuff from 3d-party repositories or self-compiled software. I certainly do not "reinstall" anything. Thinking of it, I have to run "vmware-config.pl" after a kernel upgrade and run module-assistant for the wlan module. Is that "reinstalling"?