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On 11/27/2012 12:34 PM, Randy Westlund wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm a new gentoo user (coming from ubuntu). I've been proving to |
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> myself that I can do everything I need with gentoo on a secondary |
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> laptop, and after a few weeks, I think I've got it (svn repos, AVR |
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> cross compiler, multiple screens, etc). I much prefer gentoo to |
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> ubuntu, and would like to put it on my primary laptop. But I think I |
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> should leave an ubuntu installation on there just in case. I'd like |
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> to have gentoo, ubunu, and win7 alongside each other. |
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> How feasible would it be to have gentoo and ubuntu share a /home |
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> partition? I've never had a reason to have multiple linux |
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> installations on a single machine before, but I can't think of a |
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> reason why this wouldn't work. .bashrc might need a few more lines of |
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> code. .screenrc and .exrc would be fine. My ssh keys can be shared. |
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> What would happen to .mozilla if ubuntu and gentoo are running |
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> different versions of firefox? What other issues might I run into? |
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> Alternatively, is there a way to keep gentoo's and ubuntu's hidden |
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> files separate and link or map them to ~ at boot? |
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You might have problems when Gentoo upgrades a package and Ubuntu falls |
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behind. For a made-up example, suppose Gentoo bumps XFCE to 4.12 and |
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Ubuntu is still at 4.10. XFCE will upgrade all of its config files in |
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~/.config, and the next time you boot to Ubuntu, things will probably crash. |
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I've had the same problem from time to time on a smaller scale with LyX, |
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GTK, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. |
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You can work around it fairly easily, though. Just mount all of your |
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version-independent stuff separately, under ~/Documents or whatever. Or |
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never go back to Ubuntu =) |
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