On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 02:38:27PM -0700, Paul Rogers via blfs-support wrote:
> > And then it bit me.  On my development systems, which I also use as
> > my normal desktops, I've got multiple LFS systems, with shared
> > /home.  And I update all those I claim to keep supported.  
> 
> Yeah, sooner or later that's *got* to bite one.
> 
I only ever intend to run the latest version on any of these systems
(for past BLFS releases I try to support them for security items for
a period, and firefox releases usually have security fixes).  And
when I've updated one system on a box then I make sure not to run
firefox on the remaining systems there until I've updated them.

At least this is probably my last set of updates for a BLFS-8.0
system, and I might drop 8.1 sooner rather than later.

> Ken, there is another way out!  alias ff='firefox -P $xyzzy'  In your 
> bash_profile query uname and find which system you're on, set xyzzy to be the 
> appropriate for that system and make a separate profile for each particular 
> system, and Bob' your Uncle.
> 
Yeah, done that in the past when testing beta versions.

> And thanks.  I've never confuddled /home for exactly this reason--it's *got* 
> to bite one in the nether regions sooner or later!  But if I ever needed to, 
> now I know what to do.
> 

Great!  BLFS is about learning, it's just that sometimes the
learning comes at unexpected times.

ĸen
-- 
Before the universe began, there was a sound. It went: "One, two, ONE,
two, three, four" [...] The cataclysmic power chord that followed was
the creation of time and space and matter and it does Not Fade Away.
 - wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Music_With_Rocks_In


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