Add warning to README Updating single packages while the ROCm stack of an older release is still installed may result in build errors. The README now contains a warning and recommends a fresh install, in accordance with AMD's official recommendation: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/blob/master/README.md

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  • @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ To install ROCm, use
    yay -S rocm-dev rocm-utils rocm-libs ``` which includes the low-level components and compilers (`rocm-dev`), utilities like `rocminfo` (`rocm-utils`) and GPU-accelerated math libraries (`rocm-libs`). + > **WARNING** It is strongly recommended to remove all ROCm components when updating to a new release. + > Otherwise, building the packages with `yay` may have unwanted side effects resulting in build errors. + > If it's a small release with only a few updated packages, consider building them in a [clean chroot](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot). + > + > One way to mitigate these issues is to use the binary versions of the packages provided by arch4edu. You can also install specific ROCm packages like so: ```bash