<div dir="ltr">While I'm not sure I'm in Red Pill Mode, I did my update from the command line over SSH; a really STUPID ting to do. <br><br>I did reboot my system last night after doing the upgrade on Sat, and all of a sudden everything looks like it works. There where a number of 3rd party apps that needed to be upgraded, but everything is now working fine.<br>
<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Denis<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Ryan Abel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rabelg5@gmail.com">rabelg5@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Oct 6, 2008, at 4:04 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote:<br>
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> I have already changed the defaults of red-pill mode to be 'safer':<br>
> "Show all packages" and "Show magic:sys" are now off by default.<br>
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</div>Oh thank god! That makes my troubleshooting life so much easier. Three<br>
cheers for Marius!<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> Ah, no, just stay out of red-pill mode for updates. They might take<br>
> some time, but they should not need any baby-sitting. It should be<br>
> one<br>
> big download followed by one big installation and a clean reboot.<br>
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</div>At some point, Red Pill mode became some sort of magical fix-all snake<br>
oil that everybody and his brother recommended for every problem.<br>
Predictably and unfortunately, most of the people who ended following<br>
these recommendations are exactly the people who shouldn't have.<br>
<br>
The folks on the front lines of community troubleshooting support have<br>
done their best to try to stop its usage as a magic bullet, but a lot<br>
of people seem to ignore the advice against using it.<br>
<br>
To anybody reading using Red Pill mode, please don't. If you aren't<br>
absolutely positive of what it's going to do, then you're just going<br>
to get yourself in trouble. You don't need it and you don't want it,<br>
so don't use it.<br>
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