On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 21.11.2011 20:43, schrieb Bernardo Barros: >> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Thorsten Töpper >> <atsutane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Seriously, it's probably meant like this but your mail reads like a >>> "Hey why don't you learn $INSERT_LANG_HERE and rewrite your whole >>> system." >>> >> >> Hello Thorsten, no, you got it wrong. >> >> It's about ideas not languages. I think it makes sense in a rolling >> release OS like Arch. >> >> Ideas like for example >> >> pacman --rollback >> >> Would be possible then > > We have an old bug reprot about this. See my comment at > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8585#comment47567 > > With btrfs this might be possible to implement in a clean and sane way. > And as I said back then: This feature does not really belong in a > package manager; even though ti could trigger snapshot creation etc. > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com > +1 I prefer a general method of rolling back changes, not a package-focused one. I think you can use ARM and 'pacman -Suu' e.g. http://arm.konnichi.com/2011/11/20/
