At Montag, 1. Februar 2010 23:57 Heiko Baums wrote: > It's contrary because these cases are so seldom it would make too much > work to keep and maintain several older versions and it would cost much > more disk space and traffic on the mirrors. +1 I speak about this seldom cases and the only one what i propose to have multiple versions is the kernel package. Perhaps the devs see more but not me.-) > See Gentoo with its USE flags, slots, multiple versions in the portage > tree etc. All these features are quite nice and supposedly flexible. > But in fact I like the feeling of having lost all this ballast on Arch. I tried gentoo in the past but this USE flags confused me more than they helps me because i don't know enough about what for apps need what to use it in a constructive way. > And the two cases in which I needed the previous version I was lucky > with the pacman -U option. We both are not so much different in our opinions (perhaps we should try it in german -) ) but instead of you i don't see the cache on my local disk as a backup. That is why i use own kernel packages to be on the safe side.-) See you, Attila
