[Mageia-discuss] what aabout an automated way of doing it?

Fri Oct 29 18:17:23 CEST 2010

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.
+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.
+
+As a personal note, I don't like the idea of a daemon that would register 
+what I do with my computer.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+