system restore for ubuntu -- few ideas.

[Travis Watkins]

On 5/18/05, Martijn van de Streek <martijn at foodfight.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Robert Jameson wrote:
> 
> > I was thinking today about the possibility to make it so users can
> > restore back to a previous state -- this could be done using some
> > tracking information in dpkg and apt-get & synaptic.
> 
> My first question about this proposal is:
> 
> Why would you want system state tracking in Ubuntu?
> 
> The only reasons I can think of for doing it in Windows are the one-way
> trip to DLL Hell and system instability. DLL Hell is prevented by the
> packaging system, and ensuring system instability is why we have testing
> releases and only security fixes in released versions.
> 
> I can agree with backups (dpkg data, list of installed packages, changed
> conffiles and /home basically), because disks tend to blow up a lot..
> but that's not exatly "state tracking".
> 
> Martijn
> --
> Q:      What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?
> A:      A canary with the super-user password.
> 
> 
> BodyID:89697826.2.n.logpart (stored separately)
> 
 
Agreed. I only used System Restore on windows to make it one click to
return a system to when I first set it up so I wouldn't have to deal
with spyware and DLL hell.

-- 
Travis Watkins
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