-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2010 01:06 PM, Steven I Usdansky wrote: > Instead of worrying about the occasional brokenness caused by an update to a stable release, how about focusing on a mechanism to easily recover from it? There is no real recovery for traditional package systems as each change on a package (install, update, remove etc.) changes the state of the system as a whole, i.e. the system relies on side effects (mostly writing files into shared/global locations) and provides no referential transparency for such actions, same output for same input is never guaranteed. Even if you do provide something like rollbacks for yum you'll never really return to the original system state so at some point something will break irrevocably. A real solution for a healthy life on the bleeding edge and the side-effect problem would be to dump the global state paradigm and thus RPM and yum altogether and adopt a system like Nix (http://nixos.org/). - -- Alexander Kahl GNU/Linux Software Developer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuXlnQACgkQVTRddCFHw109HwCeJs6qiWoGIpQSXY6qNMq0UnjQ uz0AoLLS/bToEgxsrjNrXwd8tHYEgeAe =p8jG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
