Per Jessen schreef op 05-04-16 10:51:
I haven't looked into this yet, just thinking out loud - what issues might there be in sharing a homedir (via NFS) between multiple versions of e.g. KDE?
We have KDE3, 4 and -5 for instance.
I thought it was going to be about "sharing a home" :P. Just what I know is that using the same dir = instant mayhem. Many people in the past have reported issues stemming from kde4->5 upgrade that could only be resolved (easily) by wiping all config files clean, especially .kde (if it uses that same directory). I have no more info than that, other than that: - different systems (distributions) may have programs of different versions using the same config files with a different structure/model, resulting in incompatibility between versions. This does not arise if you have only one distribution, but a common use case is to use multiple. - backward compatibility is notoriously bad in Linux compared to other systems (or even on its own): Gnome/GTK3 keeps breaking pretty much everything with every minor version. Consumer oriented applications like Thunderbird might not suffer as much from this; the database for TB 24 appears to be identical as for TB 38. But KDE specific apps might see a lot of that. So what is left is: what about .cache? what about .local? Everything else is going to be fine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org