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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: bug-guix@gnu.org,
	Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Rollback problems
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:48:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201301251548.03401.andreas@enge.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359122091.2545.2.camel@Nokia-N900>

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Am Freitag, 25. Januar 2013 schrieb Alex Sassmannshausen:
> I guess a generation would only be destroyed at a junction, not when
> moving back and forth in straight lines.
> A ------> B ------> C
> You could travel from C back to A and back to C without having to
> re-install packages...

Yes, that is the idea. However, at a junction, all the past future would be 
lost: Once at A, if you install B', then you start an alternate future, and 
B and C would be deleted.

Andreas

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-25 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-23 20:48 Rollback problems Andreas Enge
2013-01-23 22:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-23 23:17   ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-24 11:34     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-24 15:33       ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2013-01-24 15:59         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-24 20:52       ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-25  2:44         ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-25 13:54           ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2013-01-25 14:48             ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2013-01-25 14:53           ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-27 17:05         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-28 22:10           ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-28 22:44             ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-25  3:08     ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-27 17:06 ` Ludovic Courtès

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