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

[Billy Pollifrone]

Anerobe wrote:
> Stefan Waidele wrote:
> =

> 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.

Firefox is one good example of versions changing and being incompatible
and an exception to the rule. It and Thunderbird do a great job of
"reconfiguring" plugins. That's more of a CYA thing since they didn't
write the 3rd party stuff, but it proves that shared /home is not a
newbie quest.

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(o_  Billy Pollifrone
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