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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 14. nov. 2011 10:00, skrev Thorsten Wilms:
> I've been thinking that installing a distribution should be a bit like 
> a checkout from a VCS. At any time, it should be straightforward to 
> get a diff, that is a list of the changes you did to the system.
That would be nice. It's difficult to do, though. Perhaps it might be 
possible when we start using btrfs?

> Such a diff view would ideally not only allow simple rollbacks, but 
> also selective enabling/disabling of changes. Which would require 
> dependency management, pre-/post-conditions.
>
> Collections of changes should be exportable, as a kind of portable 
> modifications, Software packages could be expressed within this system.

You mean like OneConf?

Jo-Erlend Schinstad