<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/02/2013 03:45 PM, Liam Proven wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAMTenCFdgC13RRpkexu659Y-s5kb4q7Vku_ehXnPU-g4KVFAPg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;"> <pre wrap="">what i have found is that it retains all the detritis for a new > install i.e. all the .files for apps one has installed and then > removed - which is what one doesn't want on a new install. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Yes it does. I see that as a benefit - it means when you install the new system, *if* and only if you use the same username, then you get all your settings just how you left them. You just have to reinstall any additional apps.</pre> </blockquote> I have been doing that for 10 years.. I always reuse the same username, just so I get all my old configs.. and email, favorites, etc. I ran into an issue recently where I tried to install E17 from the E17 site, not the repositories. That means I had to compile a bunch of other programs. It got all ..screwed up, so I reinstalled ubuntu . Now everything is fine and I just installed E17 from the repositories. Even though it is a revision back, I'll live with that:) <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587</pre> </body> </html>