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On Friday 22 December 2006 10:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > A bin package is equally cumbersome. You will very quickly consume huge |
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> > amounts of disk space - at least equal to all the current packages on |
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> > the system plus old ones that were updated. |
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> Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially for |
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> those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an older, |
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> working version in seconds rather than minutes or hours is a definite |
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> benefit. |
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And in addition to that they only require a working tar and bash (which could |
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be run from a livecd) to roll back. Without them a working gcc and |
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python/portage is required too... |
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Bo Andresen |
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