Non destructive install is important.

[Klaus Bitto]

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> If you want to upgrade an existing installation, then you should use the
> normal package management tools to do so, not the installer.


My "dist-upgrade" went terribly wrong, even though I knew I had to run it
many times, as well as the "-f install", which i regard as wrong in itself
already.

Rather than telling one should upgrade using the package management, while
there is no tool everyone can use to do so, I'd have the installer force
people to have separated partitions for data (/home and maybe /etc) and
system, or do so by itself, if auto partitioning is chosen by the user, and
then make the distribution so that you can only upgrade by installing a new
system, which automatically adds the existing home and comfiguration
folders.
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