Adventurous yet Safety-Minded

[Alexander Kahl]

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On 03/11/2010 02:16 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Alexander Kahl wrote:
> 
>> On 03/10/2010 08:26 PM, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
>>> If there's a magic solution that will satisfy the vast majority
>>> of Fedora users, I have absolutely no clue as to what it might be.
>>
>> Please read: http://nixos.org/nix/
>> Esp. "Atomic upgrades and rollbacks"
> 
> That's not a solution for Fedora at all. It's a completely different package 
> manager (competing with RPM).
Well, now that you mention it..! ;)

> It also works by keeping all the old versions 
> of all packages stored on disk all the time, a massive waste of disk space, 
Please define "massive" if you're keeping exactly what's needed to keep
everything running and prune anything else by using a sophisticated,
tunable garbage collection mechanism.

> and also not compliant with the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard).
Yep. It's much better, comparable to the GAC (global assembly cache) of
the CLR (Mono), just applied as a packaging / filesystem layout paradigm
for the whole system. Please read my other post in reply to yersinia -
sorry, this thread is cluttered, bad MUAs.

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Alexander Kahl
GNU/Linux Software Developer
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