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On Wednesday 28 December 2011 02:21:25 Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Is there anything in my current Gentoo /home and swap that "locks" them to |
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> the Gentoo install or can I share them between the two installs? |
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Beware! Whichever your preferred desktop (kde, gnome, whatever), having your |
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whole home directory shared between distros is a recipe for disaster. You |
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only need one program to differ in version number between distros to render |
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the whole lot unusable. Consider, for instance, the current difficulty of |
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incompatible versions of kmail between 4.4 and 4.7. |
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My preference is to have a /home/<user>/common partition mounted in each |
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distro, containing everything I want accessible at all times, but leave |
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things like .kde4 dedicated to the distro that's running it. |
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Rgds |
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Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 |