[arch-general] pacman new generation

Rogutės Sparnuotos rogutes at googlemail.com
Mon Nov 21 14:57:27 EST 2011


Bernardo Barros (2011-11-21 11:43):
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Thorsten Töpper
> <atsutane at freethoughts.de> wrote:
> > Seriously, it's probably meant like this but your mail reads like a
> > "Hey why don't you learn $INSERT_LANG_HERE and rewrite your whole
> > system."
> >
> 
> Hello Thorsten, no, you got it wrong.
> 
> It's about ideas not languages. I think it makes sense in a rolling
> release OS like Arch.
> 
> Ideas like for example
> 
>     pacman --rollback
> 
> Would be possible then

"Rolling release" and "rollback" don't go together. You want to move
forward (upgrade), not back, or you don't want a rolling release.

Suggestion: read point 1. at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way
and look at nixos again.


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