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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Update circle
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:27:17 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi <zoltan@bendor.com.au> wrote:
> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite
> a long while, actually.

> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the
> system from scratch is absolutely not an option, the existing (and
> running) system must be updated somehow.

Doing a reinstall will probably be far less work and less disruption
for the machines user's.  You don't have to "wipe the disk" to do a
re-install.

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