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		piaste on Aug 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Modern C Development Environment Yeah but I assume that you'd be pinning the base image, in addition to whatever you apt install. If I install, let's say Debian 6, can I use `apt install package=version ` to install the 2011 versions of most packages?

brabel on Aug 11, 2023 [–]

I don't know, but it would be really great if you could do

    apt rollback=2011-01-01

And have everything installed exactly as it would be if I had installed everything in 2011-01-01 after running `apt update`.

I think this is basically what Nix is?!

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