"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But the problem is that for this to work this way, you have to support > downgrades. With a more complex scheme supporting redowngrades (i.e. > upgrading and downgrading again when no user-made changes were done) > would be needed. > This has to be supported on a per package level in order to work. Many > packages are boring enough a normal downgrade will work, but there are > enough cases like databases to be converted to a new format or even > only some reodering of some symlinks, that are not trivially revertable.
I always assumed that if downgrading didn't work, it was a bug; is this not true? -Miles -- Occam's razor split hairs so well, I bought the whole argument! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]