-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/11/2010 02:16 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Alexander Kahl wrote: > >> On 03/10/2010 08:26 PM, Steven I Usdansky wrote: >>> If there's a magic solution that will satisfy the vast majority >>> of Fedora users, I have absolutely no clue as to what it might be. >> >> Please read: http://nixos.org/nix/ >> Esp. "Atomic upgrades and rollbacks" > > That's not a solution for Fedora at all. It's a completely different package > manager (competing with RPM). Well, now that you mention it..! ;) > It also works by keeping all the old versions > of all packages stored on disk all the time, a massive waste of disk space, Please define "massive" if you're keeping exactly what's needed to keep everything running and prune anything else by using a sophisticated, tunable garbage collection mechanism. > and also not compliant with the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard). Yep. It's much better, comparable to the GAC (global assembly cache) of the CLR (Mono), just applied as a packaging / filesystem layout paradigm for the whole system. Please read my other post in reply to yersinia - sorry, this thread is cluttered, bad MUAs. - -- 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuY70YACgkQVTRddCFHw12oiACgqZp+94Q6rUQM2jAaKzWfobP8 oOgAoKTV9OurZ8oBq1pwn2oniZFXPOeC =GsWd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
