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

[Anerobe]

Stefan Waidele wrote:

> Billy Pollifrone schrieb:
>> Stefan Waidele wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Make one big partition for data-exchange which you can mount in each
>>> distribution.
>> 
>> /home is also a candidate for a shared partition. There could be issues
>> of configuration files being newer or older than a version for a
>> particular program,
> 
> I usually don't share home (especially if it is for test-setups like Ali
> seems to have in mind).
> 
> 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.

Agree. It's unlikely that each distro will use common software versioning.
This may cause conflicts with the config directories.

I recently had separate installs of Firefox, one at 1.5.08 and the other at
2.0 which shared the same config directory. When running 1.5.08 (after
2.0), Firefox "disabled" several of the newer extensions. This wouldn't
have happened with distro specific /home partitions.