On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially > > for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an > > older, working version in seconds rather than minutes or hours is a > > definite benefit. > > And in addition to that they only require a working tar and bash (which > could be run from a livecd) to roll back.
Oh yes, I've been there when a broken glibc update stopped the computer booting. Untarring the old glibc package from a live CD was all I needed to get working again. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 8: Tight slacks
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