On Sunday 19 March 2006 20:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:24:10 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > Major versions, yes, but not minor versions. The problems occur when > > > you upgrade one distro to a later minor version, run it, then go back > > > to the older version. config files are intended to be > > > backward-compatible, not forward-compatible. This isn't urban myth, I > > > have experienced it. > > > > and which desktop environment breaks compatibility in minor versions? > > I had some config breakage between KDE3.4 and 3.5 related to some 3rd > > party decoration/theme, but in the minor versions, it shouldn't matter. > > KDE, especially if one of the distros uses a customised version. > > Running Gentoo and Mandrake with a shared home directory broke things in > very short order. Using separate home directories on a single shared > partition gave no such problems. > > Every distro is different (otherwise, what would be the point?) so > sharing config files is always going to be risky.
well, you just proved, why distros should not customize the software.... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
