Sharing Partitions

[William Park]

It's best if you keep "system" and "user" data separate.  You can just
keep the downloaded sources, and install them with the newly installed
distro.
-- 
William

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 07:44:10PM +0000, john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
> I thought that if I can stay away from distro specific programs in
> /opt and /usr/local, I would be OK. You're saying not necessarily so.
> I just didn't want to have to install the same non-packaged program
> every time I try out a new distro.
> 
> > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:21:58 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Sharing Partitions
> > From: davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
> > To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> > 
> > Well /usr/local and /opt wouldn't be package management it usually
> > should be compiled programs that you did your self or third party
> > binaries but still could cause problems
> > with libraries.

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