On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote: >(2) It is very tedious to re-configure everything. > >There _are_ arguments in favour of a clean install. >I'm just pointing out that there are also arguments for an upgrade. On a single system, There is little difference (other than the upgrade is generally less clean from a QA viewpoint) If you have to maintain multiple systems, reconfiguring is _not_ tedious if you do it right from the start.