On Jan 26, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I never said it won't work in absolute, it probably will work ok in many > cases, just to cause incredible issues in others. > > It is a fine tool in the hands of an expert that knows how to check > whether reverting to a snapshot is safe. Why is the snapshot case any different from a user who reverts doing a clean install or yum downgrade? > > It is not going to be a good solution for non-expert users though > *unless* you provide system APIs that *all* applications use to signal > when they are doing irreversible changes so that the user can be warned > about potential data loss right when he asks the system to revert a > snapshot. Developers should not be sneak attacking non-expert users with file format changes that aren't well announced in advance of consequences they probably won't be able to read their data if they downgrade the application. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
