[LBo] How to make a bunch of flavours of unix

[Billy Pollifrone]

Stefan Waidele wrote:
> Billy Pollifrone schrieb:
>> Stefan Waidele wrote:
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> Each distro configures their application a little bit different. It
> might be good to be able to examine these differences (shell-prompt,...).
> =

> If /home is shared, new newer install will simply overwrite the old
> configs, thus "resetting" any customizations already made.

I'm not sure they do unless they create a new directory for that user
that did not exist before.

Lets say for instance, I'm installing and /home/billy is where I tell
the installer to put my home dir. If that exists, the default skeleton
files wouldn't be copied. What customizations I've done will be
retained. What implications would happen by overwriting a ~/.kde
directory for instance. If I chose a directory that doesn't exist, a
default set of configuration files is written.

Granted I've used primarily Debian derivatives, but I've not seen my
configurations obliterated when I've tried another distro. I backup
what's there first, of course.

Having differing versions of installed software would be a problem
though as configuration formats may have changed over time. Backwards
compatibility and/or ignoring unknown configuration directives would
help with this, but may or may not be in place and couldn't be
completely relied on.

If I'm incorrect on how installing a distro happens, like an example of
a distro installer that does, I'd like to know about it.

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(o_  Billy Pollifrone
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