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> generally put you up the creek without a paddle if something goes wrong I would very much like to hear some anecdotes to back this one up, instead of a gener
by waddlesplash 8y ago
> generally put you up the creek without a paddle if something goes wrong
I would very much like to hear some anecdotes to back this one up, instead of a general accusation.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoYou've never had your apt database get corrupted? It's an experience you remember, because it means you can never install or uninstall anything ever again. Maybe they've improved on that somehow since it has last happened to me.
- waddlesplash 8y agoNope, I never have. Haiku's package manager makes that problem impossible, though, because there is no "installed files" database; whatever packages are in the "activated-packages" file get mounted on startup. If that file doesn't exist, it mounts everything in `/system/packages`. And if that's in an inconsistent state, you can boot into a previous state from the bootloader menu. And if that still doesn't work, you can copy a working `packages` directory from another Haiku install.