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+ <H1>[Mageia-discuss] what aabout an automated way of doing it?</H1>
+ <B>Dale Huckeby</B>
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+ <I>Sat Oct 30 00:05:06 CEST 2010</I>
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+<PRE>On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Renaud MICHEL wrote:
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+&gt;<i> On vendredi 29 octobre 2010 at 16:50, Catalin Florin RUSSEN wrote :
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> You cannot read the mind of an user, but you can install an agent (small
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> app) that register his habits, his installed, applications, his desktop
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> parameters in a central account and reproduce them on a new install, ie.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> from version Mageia 2011 to Mageia 2012 :)
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Desktop and other applications configuration are stored in the user's home
+</I>&gt;<i> directory, so if you have a separate /home partition (which mandriva does by
+</I>&gt;<i> default, I guess mageia will too), even if you re-install you won't lose
+</I>&gt;<i> your configuration.
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+Ah, but you WILL if you're a newbie and, not knowing any better, format
+that partition along with the others. (It does help that, IIRC, the default
+is to not format it.) This would be a good place for a dialog informing
+the user in nontechnical language of the consequences of formatting /home.
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+Dale Huckeby
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