Sharing /home between hoary and breezy

[Daniel Robitaille]

> I've just installed breezy in a spare partition along side my hoary
> installation. My boot menu is such that I can boot either into hoary or
> into breezy. I've set it up so the /home is common between the two
> installations.
> 
> I'm just wondering if there is likely to be any backward compatibility
> problems with my configuration files in my home directory. I'm thinking
> a change to these under breezy might be unknown to my hoary system and
> screw things up.
> 
> Am I safe running this way, or is there some risk here? I've yet to boot
> my breezy system as I figured wouls see what comment I got!

I would guess it would be mostly fine, but there could be differences.
 Take firefox for example (with its config files in ~/.mozilla).   In
Hoary it will stay at 1.0.2.  But in breezy I'm guessing it will go up
in version numbers until possibly 1.1.  Is there  going to be config
difference in firefox between 1.0.2 and 1.1?  Maybe. Maybe not.  Will
it break your ~/.mozilla directory?  Who knows.

Personally I would be very tempted to keep seperate home directories
the two (so that all the dot files are different), but you can always
share your regular folders (~/Documents ~/Music, etc etc) via symbolic
links between the 2 installations such that you have access to all
your regular files.