houghi wrote:
if you use a separate partition for home, the upgrade will use it also, so the risk is the same.
An upgrade would (or could) see the /home partition and not overwrite it
it's harldy possible, config files has to be writen. The way suse do for rpm (rpm.save or rpm.new) is not for everybody use.
As far as I can see in this list, most have ~/home on a seperate partition, so why not make it default? Those who do not want it can just change is, just like people can change it now.
don't forget this list is beta tester ones, I beleived they know what they do. but suse is a major distro for beginners (too), so defaults must allow anybody use. that is any added option is a potential risk. make /home an other partition is not stupid, ans can be seen as good, even if it's not my choice :-). I would even say that on the _very_ hudge disks we have nowadays, making separate partitions for /var, /boot, /home and may be /usr should be thinked of. Why not different options if disk size vary? the only real risk is to confuse the user (and don't forget they will often look at these partition from XP and may ask questions, even delete then - XP don't label "linux"). by the way we could find a accomodment with options like * beginners - don't want to worry (all in /) * enhanced - /boot, /home, / * server - /boot, /var, /home, /usr, / * expert - do what you want jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr