Gentoo

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Sunday 07 January 2007 13:34, Luke-Jr wrote:

> > is there any method of directing an update to"roll back"
> > to the last stable pre-update state if an update breaks?

> If an update won't build, it will never be installed. 

The problem is if you're doing a broad installation, as in update world which 
installs all updated packages, and you upgrade yourself into 
version-incompatibility, where some essential system will not run because one 
or more packages that DID install is incompatible with one that could not.