Renaud MICHEL a écrit :
On vendredi 29 octobre 2010 at 16:50, Catalin Florin RUSSEN wrote :
You cannot read the mind of an user, but you can install an agent (small
app) that register his habits, his installed, applications, his desktop
parameters in a central account and reproduce them on a new install, ie.
from version Mageia 2011 to Mageia 2012 :)
Desktop and other applications configuration are stored in the user's home
directory, so if you have a separate /home partition (which mandriva does by
default, I guess mageia will too), even if you re-install you won't lose
your configuration.
Yes indeed. I should have thought of that, as I have always used a
separate /home partition.
So that makes the idea workable, without any security risks associated
with a remote server.
For the first release, at least, Mageia will be generally following
Mandriva defaults.
And upgrades will be possible from Mandriva to Mageia.
But it is much easier to upgrade instead of doing a fresh install, that will
keep all your installed programs (except for conflicts) and your system
configuration.
Exactly. Also much faster.
But there are times where a clean install is advisable.
As a personal note, I don't like the idea of a daemon that would register
what I do with my computer.
Neither do I. Security and privacy risks.
- André
