From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Gy9Z4-0006PK-Fd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:17:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBNGE8Pe031204; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:14:08 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBNGBKMG000043 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:11:21 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E4CD14C35 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:11:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id zzRCohCnVoZs for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:11:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 068FE14C47 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:11:17 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:11:10 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <49bf44f10612180647g6ac243ebm9cfa8b79a5aeb3b5@mail.gmail.com> <200612231247.08049.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <20061223144403.28704c73@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20061223144403.28704c73@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3290669.ReNlQ6yVlI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612231011.14621.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: d007bca0-f5ed-4b7c-b8e5-d6485ff4459b X-Archives-Hash: 58b06fc9a15305709daf4ac09a975184 --nextPart3290669.ReNlQ6yVlI Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 23 December 2006 08:44, Neil Bothwick =20 wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?': > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo =C3=98rsted 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=20 able to recover via busybox (which has a shell and tar built-in). /me hugs his Gentoo. =2D-=20 "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." =2D- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh --nextPart3290669.ReNlQ6yVlI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFjVUiq72nDbhDXToRAvLeAJ0a15bLkKdb5JJaMUoTNkNvOY6qAACfcEu8 zj3efaZaNdvSDgRa5KzsnAU= =syil -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3290669.ReNlQ6yVlI-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list