fons@... wrote:
But then doing a full system upgrade (as advised on this list) completely locked up the machine - frozen screen, dead capslock led etc. No other choice but a power cycle, broken filesystems, and hours of work repairing them and putting bits and pieces back in place. I still have a about 700 files in lost+found, most of them seem *.pyc and man pages, so probably no big losses.
"lost+found" is a filesystem thing: it's the place where files are put that cannot be linked up eg. in the fsck phase. Other than that: if you need old libs or headers, you will have to save them some place, the arch goods will not help you with this. Ironically, if pacman was such a tidy package manager and devs were so keen to keep things that way, why is there ever any output in "pacman -Qdt"? clemens