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On Saturday 23 December 2006 08:44, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> |
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wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?': |
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> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> > > Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially |
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> > > for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an |
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> > > older, working version in seconds rather than minutes or hours is a |
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> > > definite benefit. |
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> > And in addition to that they only require a working tar and bash |
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> > (which could be run from a livecd) to roll back. |
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> Oh yes, I've been there when a broken glibc update stopped the computer |
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> booting. |
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I've broken multiple packages including glibc (multiple times), but was |
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able to recover via busybox (which has a shell and tar built-in). |
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/me hugs his Gentoo. |
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-- |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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