8.10 Updates damaging applications

[Derek Broughton]

Robert Parker wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mario Vukelic
> <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:23 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> I have just got to back up my home directory (I don't use a partition,
>>> as I have Debian 4.0 also installed on that computer, and did not want
>>> conflicts - I understand that home directories/partitions should not
>>> be shared between different Linux installations),
>>
>> That's probably a good idea to avoid difficult-to-debug issues
> 
> I have been led to believe that it's safe enough if they are all
> Debian based at least.

I'd have to say no.  Certainly there are times that it could work, but if,
for instance, you were using a KDE3-based distro and a KDE4-based distro,
things would get ugly.  So it's more than just being debian-based.  You can
move from one distro to another fairly well, though not easily, but trying
to share files is likely to be disastrous.
-- 
derek