Fwd: Re: [LBo] Permanent /home partition

[Jisao]

That seems quite elaborate to keep a few pretty colors and a cool 
background to my now transparent mc, for my colourized shell, awesome 
GRUB bootsplash or some other tweaking I have done to KDE for "cosmetic 
purpose".  After having succeeded at configuring some files, I would 
almost "hang them on the wall" as a trophy (like some hang moose heads 
or big stuffed bass in their summer cottage living room - or a soccer 
trophy, come to think of it) as I am so proud of having succeeded at 
such a newbie-challenging undertaking.

I mostly was thinking when I asked the question about the "reinstalls" 
of the same distro, new versions.  Some distros, like debian, are nice 
to upgrade.  But for some others, a full reinstall is required.  Even in 
the case of nice distros, sometimes the jump is so big it requires 
reinstall (like jumping from 32 bit hardware to 64 bit).

So, taking the case of KDE (or, if need be, insert here your favorite 
desktop name, and pretend you're a klutz are configuration files), how 
do you change the whole .setupfile to a newer version, keeping the 
tweaks you made.  Some make "beautifying" tweaks, but others change the 
behaviour of some "stuff" to suit their need (I heard of customized menus).

Anyway, I was looking for the "lazy" way, as I often don't remember "how 
did I pull that stunt again"?

I would not expect a FHS to be changed for those reasons on my account only.

As for multi distros, it's a sport I guess, like some people get 
fascinated kicking a ball across a lawn for a whole afternoon or 
evening, or watching them. People get their amusement where it suits them.

In any case, I have enjoyed reading all the related threads on this topic.

Jisao

Randy Kramer wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to reply so carefully.
>
> My first general response is:
>
> How would you like it to be, say 100 years from now?
>
> How hard is it to start making the change?  
>
> Pretty simple: 
>
>    * You get a few people (FHS and LSB) to make the change a goal.
>
>    * As new applications are written, or old ones are maintained, they are 
> written to support the new approach (look first in /data/<user> 
> (or /<config>/user)--if the necessary files are not found there (or if the 
> directories don't exist) fall back to looking in /home/<user>.
>
> Maybe it could be a goal for 2032?
>
> Randy Kramer
>