Gentoo

[David Nicol]

On 1/7/07, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 07 January 2007 19:56, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 January 2007 13:34, Luke-Jr wrote:
> >
> > 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.

of course, "essential" is highly subjective.  With the current vast expanse of
hard drive space, it can make sense to keep not just /etc/ but your whole damn
system in a subversion respository.  svn as backup software!

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