Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop? -- LINUXDESKTOP4I

Subject: Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:46:03 -0600
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Lukas Beeler wrote:

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 20:01, Scott Klement <bsd4i@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When that happens, it's awfully nice to still be able to boot, and then
simply restore /usr from backup.

Well, that won't work on any of the major Linux distributions, as the
package management would be highly confused.

As long as you restore a backup that contains what the package manager thinks should be there, you won't have any problems.

david

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