F-11 and F-12 on same machine?

2009-08-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
Am I likely to get into a mess if I have a dual boot system with Fedora-11 and Fedora-12 on different partitions, sharing the same /home (and /boot)? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

Re: F-11 and F-12 on same machine?

2009-08-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Timothy Murphy writes: Am I likely to get into a mess if I have a dual boot system with Fedora-11 and Fedora-12 on different partitions, sharing the same /home (and /boot)? Not if you are very careful. pgpx09k5svtww.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: F-11 and F-12 on same machine?

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:14:26 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: sharing the same /home (and /boot)? Sometimes different versions of things that store junk in your home directory in ~/.whatever files and directories can make incompatible changes in the contents of that hidden stuff, then when you boot

Re: F-11 and F-12 on same machine?

2009-08-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tom Horsley wrote: sharing the same /home (and /boot)? Sometimes different versions of things that store junk in your home directory in ~/.whatever files and directories can make incompatible changes in the contents of that hidden stuff, then when you boot back to the old version things

Re: F-11 and F-12 on same machine?

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:14:01 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: It seems to me that it shouldn't be too difficult for an if F11 ... elsif F12 sequence to be included in files that might be affected. That would be up to each of the individual 47,321 apps that cram things in ~/ to do, and since only

Re: F-11 and F-12 on same machine?

2009-08-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tom Horsley wrote: It seems to me that it shouldn't be too difficult for an if F11 ... elsif F12 sequence to be included in files that might be affected. That would be up to each of the individual 47,321 apps that cram things in ~/ to do, and since only 0.001% of linux developers think