On Saturday 23 December 2006 08:44, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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