Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

[Tom <tb.31020.nospam@comcast.net>]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:57:34PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> All I want to do is give up on this new version and go to an earlier version,
> most likely the version I had installed five minutes ago. Downgrading to
> testing would probably require a whole new set of libraries and more work.

I keep snapshots of my system states and debs as I upgrade.  It's not 
perfect, but it's easy to roll back massive fuckups immediately, and at 
least possible to roll back one-or-two packages from a couple weeks ago.
(Really complex changes like the recent gnome upgrade still get 
confusing, though).