Re: [gentoo-user] Share /home with Gentoo and Ubuntu

[Randy Westlund <rwestlun@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> 121127 Randy Westlund wrote:
>> I'm a new gentoo user coming from Ubuntu.
>
> Welcome !
>
>> I've been proving to myself that I can do everything I need with Gentoo
>> on a secondary laptop, and after a few weeks, I think I've got it:
>> svn repos, AVR cross compiler, multiple screens, etc.  I much prefer
>> Gentoo to Ubuntu and would like to put it on my primary laptop,
>> but I think I should leave an Ubuntu installation on there just in case.
>> I'd like to have Gentoo, Ubuntu and Win7 alongside each other.
>> How feasible would it be to have Gentoo and Ubuntu share a /home partition?
>
> It's likely to cause problems after a short time,
> as the  2  OS's will vary in the way they handle config files
> & pkgs wb updated at different times & to different versions.
>
> Try having separate homes, but symlink most of your subdirs in Ubuntu
> -- since you are likely to stop using it soon -- to those in Gentoo.
> The subdirs to symlink wb those which contain your personal stuff
> -- documents, pictures, whatever -- , which won't vary with OS.
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Thanks for all the advice.  I think I'm going to have separate /home
directories and symlink the important things.  Given that I don't
intend to use ubuntu very much, it makes the most sense.  But at some
point, I want to try this on a spare machine, just to see what
happens.  Perhaps if I run xfce on gentoo and kde on ubuntu, there
would be fewer collisions.