Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

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Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2018, Rick Stevens sent:
> You'd run into the exact same thing if you updated, say Mozilla, from
> one version to one that's incompatible with the old one. You'd need
> to blow all the users' ".mozilla" directories away in that case. Why
> go through all this? If a given user has a problem, then have them
> delete their app-specific directory and let them reconfigure the app.

Actually, that's a good example to pick on (Mozilla or Thunderbird). 
You (might) want to discard old configurations that might have
conflicts, but keep bookmarks and mail.  So you have to be choosy about
what hidden directories you erase.

-- 
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.15.17-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Apr 12 18:28:26 UTC 2018 x86_64

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There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see
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When it comes to electronics, I'm slightly biased.
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