From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFqUK-00086h-Vw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:15:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28BA0E06EC; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079C1E06EC for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DD8DEBBF for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:15:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id s1QAiBU5xl4M for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:04:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A85DDEBBA for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:15:13 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Considering launching into Gentoo Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:15:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4A33A362.7070907@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A33A362.7070907@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906141515.09535.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2ef47e6b-ca2f-4e53-8348-63bd464d3d26 X-Archives-Hash: cdb544cd1ff7921360e50b18c5a9f999 On Saturday 13 June 2009 14:02:26 AG wrote: > How compatible are Gentoo and Debian in terms of using a shared /home > directory - I am concerned about uid for the directory for instance > which, if I changed it for Gentoo, may not work for Debian and vice > versa. I've run multi-boot systems too, and I shied away from sharing my home directory between them - there was too much risk of different versions of, say, kmail running in the two systems and clobbering each other's data. So I created a ~/common/ partition for things I wanted to be always available. I still operate that way, even though I haven't made much use of any other distros in the last year or two. -- Rgds Peter