Gentoo

[Luke-Jr]

On Monday 08 January 2007 05:14, you wrote:
> 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!

Haha, maybe-- but I'd prefer that be done on the filesystem level when you do 
that.

The problem with Subversion for this, and why it won't work too great outside 
of configs, is that it doesn't store owner/group or permissions at all.