Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>]

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On Saturday 23 December 2006 08:44, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> 
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?':
> 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.

I've broken multiple packages including glibc (multiple times), but was 
able to recover via busybox (which has a shell and tar built-in).

/me hugs his Gentoo.

-- 
"If there's one thing we've established over the years,
it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh

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