rollback portage

[UK]Superdude · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 2:51 am Post subject: rollback portage

Hi all,

I was having a thought today that I decided perhaps would be good to open up to discussion. The reason it came about was partly because at the time I was sifting through the various ways described on the forums to remove KDE/Gnome and its dependancies, but without removing dependancies for other apps that may or may not use a particular library etc etc.

I thought to myself - there must be an easier way. Thats when I thought why not include a rollback/commit style feature to portage. Have a file similar to the 'world' file which includes all the packages on the system at the time including dependancies. That way it would be a simple matter of commiting the state of your system at a time you are happy with - say after a fresh install, then at a a later stage if you have emerged a large package group such as gnome/kde you can remove it without killing dependancies of apps that you still want to use.

I realise that this could already be done by using qpkg and various other hacks etc, but wouldnt this be a good feature to have for less experienced/new to gentoo users?
Hope I was able to convey what I was thinking. Any feedback?

Also hope I havent just posted a dupe

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

[UK]Superdude PM'd me that he had seen that thread (thank you for searching) and pointed out some differences.

Perhaps the features of both ideas can be combined at some point.

I actually like the idea of various "rollback" type features... not sure if I'd ever use it though.
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