On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Charlie Brady wrote:
> I think it would be folly to encourage that thinking. The scriplets are > the fatal flaw in my mind - they are mostly one-way transformations. I > don't think the package manager is capable of supporting rollbacks - if > the users need that, then file system snapshots is probably the best > option available. Two sides to this coin: 1. users get expectations that won't work and yum gets blamed for all the suffering of the universer 2. packagers get blamed for writing unreversable scriptlets and we make the whole ecosystem better by enabling this downgrades. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
