Matthew Miller (mattdm@mattdm.org) said:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:27:46AM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
What if we instead actually, you know, recovered sanely from repository problems. Seems like the better solution ;-)
Oh, sure, in theory. :) Delaying disk writes until the last possible moment is nice security against the inevitable unexpected bugs, though.
Another thing is that it allows testing of more of the installer without the use of --test (or in the case that --test has bugs...)
Bill