Upgrading from Lucid to Maverick: Fresh, new Install vs Upgrade using Update Manager

[Tom H]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 07/12/2010 03:00, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>>> On 12/01/2010 03:31 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
>>>> On 30 November 2010 07:34, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The Upgrade Manager 'suggested' to me that it would take 105 minutes to
>>>>> download the upgrade files (at which point I went shopping after I
>>>>> answered "Go Ahead") and after this downloading finished it "told" me
>>>>> that it would take 90 minutes to process the new files, except that at
>>>>> the 45 minute mark the whole bloody sheebang stopped because the stoopid
>>>>> upgrade system was waiting for me answer "Yes" to the question if I
>>>>> accepted the EULA re the ttf mscorefonts -- and there was NO way I could
>>>>> respond to this because the EULA menu was BEHIND the Update Manager menu
>>>>> and there was no way which I knew (and I tried even waiving a live
>>>>> chicken's leg [from one of the chicken's next door] to bring up the
>>>>> 'background' EULA menu to be able to answer "YES!"
>>>> * Upgrades download more than clean installs (not exactly 'news' given
>>>> many upgrades will be upgrading more packages than a base install will
>>>> have, so will inevitably have more to download)
>>>>
>>>> * You unfortunately hit a bug in the upgrade process
>>>>
>>>> Now, if the purpose of your mail was to rant about the upgrade then
>>>> that's done,
>>> It is astonishing what people will write when they have some
>>> preconceived idea about another person's intentions.
>>>
>>> There have been numerous questions from people in this forum about
>>> whether to upgrade or to go for a clean install. Responses varied.
>>>
>>> I just went thru the exercise of doing something which I never did do
>>> before and so thought that it would be useful for those who will be
>>> asking the same questions about upgrade vs clean install, to be
>>> proactive and provide some info about my experience.
>> It was a PITA post that had no reason to be on this list except that
>> you felt like blogging.
>>
>> If only you had kept it as short as Alan's summary above.
>
> I unintentionally do yourself an unintended injustice by responding to
> your post on the basis that you simply did not comprehend what I wrote
> in response to Alan - an affect for which I did not plan or wish for.
>
> If you reread, carefully, what I wrote, as a response to Alan, you will,
> hopefully, eventually perhaps, understand what I wrote.

It was irrelevant. Your initial post was a silly blog entry a-la-karl.