Re: Upgrading gnome

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 O.Bedford@uni-koeln.de wrote:

>   On http://www.gnome.org/start/gnomerpm.phtml?dist=redhat I found the
> following advice:
> 
>   When reinstalling or upgrading an rpm package installation, also remove your home
> directory GNOME related directories (.gnome, .gnome-desktop, etc.) to prevent
> possible startup conflicts with the new version.

>   And I simply think this approach is not suitable for an end-user
> desktop-environment. I find it annoying, when an upgrade changes my
> sendmail or samba configuration. But as an admin I can tolerate it and
> fix it. But I don't think this is tolerable for a user of a desktop
> environment.

I agree.

This advice is very outdated, and was only really valid in the
pre-GNOME-1.0 days. You should probably ignore it. Anything that happens
to invalidate ~/.gnome is a bug.

-- Elliot
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.