Migration

Migration

Posted Oct 19, 2006 14:26 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)
In reply to: Why I left FL by tseaver
Parent article: An empty legacy

... desktop users, who can and should be encouraged to backup and reinstall ...

Except that there is much too little support, and almost no testing, for this migration strategy. Which hidden files in the $HOME directory (.gnome2, .nautilus, .mozilla, ...) should be carried over? Which should not? What about the /etc directory? The transition between gnome-desktop versions has been particularly rocky at times in the past.

Some applications provide internal migration, but mostly these assume simultaneous access to both the old and the new, and the migration assistance is not available once the new has been established. If you or the program don't get it right the first time, then it often becomes a morass.

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