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

Fri Oct 29 21:56:39 CEST 2010

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
+
+