On 16 May 2010, at 16:37, EBo wrote:
From personal experience with taking the backup approach, this works
fine
until you forget about it once, and it also results in a huge number
of
copies of the system/source laying around. This is less an issue in
this
day and age of cheap disks, but
but what? I agree making the sysadmin do backups is not the best
approach but.. oh man, why has no-one brought this up yet? When the
sysadmin forgets he can restore from sources!
Look here EBo, go help maintain a Linux distro for a couple of years
and THEN come back and tell us your "package managers are wonderful"
swill. I don't think you've even packaged up one piece of software.
You can't have if you're promoting package managers so much.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
