Re: Help saving my system

--On Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:25 PM -0400 Dan Langille 
<dan_at_langille.org> wrote:

> On 18 Oct 2003 at 12:16, Scott M. Likens wrote:
>
> [stuff deleted]
>
>> Comments anyone?
>
> Yes.  Next time, don't bother posting.
>
> I apologise for my previous post. I should have added what I was
> thinking.  That follows.
>
> There's little use or sense in reacting the way you did (not that my
> original post was much better). In reply to a plea for help, it would
> have been much better to have suggested course of action to remedy
> the situation, such as others have done.  This is a community mailing
> list and people are expected to contribute in a positive manner.
> Ridicule is unacceptable.
>
> Cherse
Cheers? ^^

> --
> Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
>

You know one thing i've learned in this world is to do your research before 
you ask your questions.  Try and be absolutely sure that you can't fix it 
on your own.  Then  you lay out the problem in the most descriptive way 
possible.  Of course that isn't always possible.  But you try to be as 
descriptive as possible.

Now  here is my problem

a user installs 5.1-release, then downgrades to 4.9, then wants to go back 
to 5.1? or even stays at 4.9

Okay, there is a serious problem with this because as we all know library's 
changed drastically both in the extension and purpose from 4.x to 5.x

So to downgrade, can be extremely painful and you can't expect much to work 
right.  I think we all can agree on this.

But in this situation it should come under CYA, (Cover your ass).  You 
shoud at this point, backup, reformat and get it over with.

Because at that point you've just spent more time then it's worth.

Takes 30mins to reinstall, maybe 30more mins to get the basic packages 
installed and setup?

Well here we just waisted a few hours of time on the mailing list, atleast 
.5seconds cpu time, and roughly 8k-10k bandwidth that could have been used 
otherwise.

So when I see a message like that I get offended, because I always tell 
people NEVER to downgrade from 5.x to 4.x, nor to upgrade from 4.x to 5.x

But I guess he's not a client, so it does not matter.

The point is, use your brain, and you'll find yourself asking less 
questions and getting more done.

Scott




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