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From: Md Mooktakim Ahmed <Mooktakim@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Undo feature in portage-ng ?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 22:22:15
Message-Id: 46105.130.88.96.65.1086733329.squirrel@130.88.96.65
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Undo feature in portage-ng ? by humbaba@gmx.net
1 Or maybe a snapshot feature for /etc (using CVS type technology) so that go-back feature
2 is available.
3 The snapshot should be done at every installation of a package.
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6 >> Yo,
7 >> If you mean uninstalling an installed application, then portage is
8 >> capable of that. After you emerge something as such:
9 >> emerge thissocoolapplication -v
10 >> all you have to do to undo the changes that the above command made is
11 >> this:
12 >> emerge unmerge thissocoolapplication -v
13 >
14 > I know that. But when you install some metabuild like kde you cannot just emerge unmerge
15 > kde.
16 > So it would be nice to have a feature to record the changes a certain (meta) ebuild
17 > makes, so you can later undo them.
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Undo feature in portage-ng ? Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>