OS upgrades are painful

[Bipin Gautam]

On 3/18/07, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Must we overwrite everything with a disk image? Most of the data
> doesn't need to change.
>
> I'm mostly dogfooding here. I install development tools (gcc, make,
> joe, cvs, libSDL), check out my source code, etc. My only real cheat
> is to ssh in from a machine with a reliable space bar. A nand flash
> overwrite means I have to reinstall everything, S-L-O-W-L-Y.
> _______________________________________________

yes good question!
why doesnt the devlopment build have GCC, rpm, cvs and many other
needed tools? Or are we too fearful to confront 512 mb is NOT enough
storage?

regards,
-bipion