On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:01, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Thursday 04 January 2007 13:27, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
This is exactly why I keep a separate /home directory. You can always slap it in another system and copy it over or wipe the other partitions and reinstall and all your crap is still there. Some of your dot files may need to be deleted, but should still work with newer program versions.
This is becoming more of a problem as the GUI takes over a lot of system configuration and management. Your mail and address book, IRC information, IM configuration, and other important things are being stored somewhere in a hidden filesystem that can get as ugly to find things in as the Microsoft Registry. You don't just want to delete it, but you can't trust packages built by a different distro to handle the existing configs correctly, or to even put them in the same place.
Well, KDE at least keeps all its configuration and data in ~/.kde Unless you're downgrading KDE, there shouldn't be migration problems there.