On Friday 22 December 2006 10:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > A bin package is equally cumbersome. You will very quickly consume huge > > amounts of disk space - at least equal to all the current packages on > > the system plus old ones that were updated. > > 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. Without them a working gcc and python/portage is required too... -- Bo Andresen
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