[Mageia-discuss] what aabout an automated way of doing it?

[Renaud MICHEL]

On vendredi 29 octobre 2010 at 16:50, Catalin Florin RUSSEN wrote :
> You cannot read the mind of an user, but you can install an agent (small
> app)  that register his habits, his installed, applications, his desktop
> parameters in a central account and reproduce them on a new install, ie.
> from version Mageia 2011 to Mageia 2012 :)

Desktop and other applications configuration are stored in the user's home 
directory, so if you have a separate /home partition (which mandriva does by 
default, I guess mageia will too), even if you re-install you won't lose 
your configuration.
But it is much easier to upgrade instead of doing a fresh install, that will 
keep all your installed programs (except for conflicts) and your system 
configuration.

As a personal note, I don't like the idea of a daemon that would register 
what I do with my computer.

-- 
Renaud Michel