The fact is, most of the develpers who create this stuff are probably running their systems the Right Way. Everything is likely done as it should be. Then there are the real users who Just Don’t Care, and are probably running all sorts of things that should probably have already broken their systems. Don’t be too hard on the packagers, though. They obviously did a good job of fixing the problem quickly once they realized what they had done.

You do point out something that is probably true: an emergency rollback feature for updates would be a handy thing to have. But do you know just how many times I’ve turned off Windows XP’s rollback feature simply because it was the cause of the problems? We don’t need that kind of thing in the Linux world. Oh, look… I have more updates to install now.