Marco Möller wrote: > > In the fairly large number of posts in this thread I don't recall seeing > > file system snapshots suggested. My current preference is ZFS, which I > > know from experience to be up to what I understand to be the goal here. > > (...) > I understand the OP to be in search for the uncomplicated removal of > installed packages considering package installation dates. > A fs snaphot tool is likely to return to a general system state which > would include also the return of the user data and system configurations > to a point of time in the past, instead of only treating package > installs. And if having to prepare sophisticated steps like requiring > special partitioning schemes, then this wouldn't be uncomplicated anymore.
Agreed, but at risk of going a bit off track, I didn't find this to be a problem in practice on ZFS native systems like SmartOS. Separate volume on /usr/pkg, snapshot, done. Of course the situation in Debian is a bit different. Sijmen