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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About testing applications
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:36:57
Message-Id: 8b4c83ad0703180531g15137d07m955f3c68275b832@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About testing applications by Simon Stelling
1 Hi,
2 Won't that break configs/increase clutter for people who share their home
3 directories between two distributions since they'll have to restort to
4 symlinks to make stuff work?
5 I myself have gentoo and ubuntu installed and am sharing my home directory
6 between them. I have to use ubuntu for maintaining a couple of packages and
7 I can't live without gentoo :)
8
9 On 3/18/07, Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o> wrote:
10 >
11 > Petteri Räty wrote:
12 > > Many applications save preferences in ~/.<app>/. When testing
13 > > applications please make sure you test with an empty directory to catch
14 > > cases when an upgrade works fine but a clean install doesn't. Thanks.
15 >
16 > Even better: Fix them to use ~/.config/<app> instead, so they don't
17 > clutter up the home unnecessarily :)
18 >
19 > --
20 > Kind Regards,
21 >
22 > Simon Stelling
23 > Gentoo/AMD64
24 > --
25 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
26 >
27 >
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29
30 --
31 Nirbheek Chauhan
32 Sophomore UG
33 Civil Engg
34
35 "..."
36 -- Nirbheek Chauhan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] About testing applications Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@×××××.com>