At Montag, 1. Februar 2010 23:57 Heiko Baums wrote:
It's contrary because these cases are so seldom it would make too much work to keep and maintain several older versions and it would cost much more disk space and traffic on the mirrors.
+1 I speak about this seldom cases and the only one what i propose to have multiple versions is the kernel package. Perhaps the devs see more but not me.-)
See Gentoo with its USE flags, slots, multiple versions in the portage tree etc. All these features are quite nice and supposedly flexible. But in fact I like the feeling of having lost all this ballast on Arch.
I tried gentoo in the past but this USE flags confused me more than they helps me because i don't know enough about what for apps need what to use it in a constructive way.
And the two cases in which I needed the previous version I was lucky with the pacman -U option.
We both are not so much different in our opinions (perhaps we should try it in german -) ) but instead of you i don't see the cache on my local disk as a backup. That is why i use own kernel packages to be on the safe side.-) See you, Attila