On 2004-02-25, David Baron penned: > It can happen, even to the best, even from "stable"--an upgrade is > done that renders the system less than usable. It just occured with X. > > While, if one really knew how, one could bet stuff from backport, > compile it (assuming all goes well--remember other things were changed > in the upgrade as well!), and have a fix, well, most of us will simply > be stuck. This could presumably be done manually if one has backups > but apt-get knows how to handle these things in a correct and complete > manner. > > I propose a rollback capability in apt-get. Assuming that this could > not be done over the internet at present, it would involve maintaining > an archive of replaced items and the dependancies. >
While I agree that this feature would be awesome, I believe I've seen many discussions indicating that this would be a lot more difficult to implement than it might seem. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]