On 2008/03/12 10:27 (GMT-0400) Brendan Conoboy apparently typed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> I can't imagine a newbie not welcoming the intelligence of a separate /home >> when they blindly reinstall after screwing something up, like an upgrade to a >> newer version 6 months later, shortly followed by trying again with reformat >> of /. You think most people, particularly the clueless, actually have backups >> of their personal data? If you do I think you're dreaming of utopia. > They can still use the upgrade option and not reformat /. Did you miss the part about "after screwing something up"? That would include a botched upgrade, for whatever reason, following which a fresh install on a reformatted / would be the natural and possibly only solution. It's a not uncommon situation. -- "Let us not love with words or in talk only. Let us love by what we do." 1 John 3:18 NLV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
