Gentoo

[Luke-Jr]

On Sunday 07 January 2007 19:56, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Sunday 07 January 2007 13:34, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > > is there any method of directing an update to"roll back"
> > > to the last stable pre-update state if an update breaks?
> >
> > If an update won't build, it will never be installed.
>
> The problem is if you're doing a broad installation, as in update world
> which installs all updated packages, and you upgrade yourself into
> version-incompatibility, where some essential system will not run because
> one or more packages that DID install is incompatible with one that could
> not.

True, except that no essential system package depends on anything with this 
problem generally.