Another quick question from the Baconator :D

[dylunio]

you may want to share /home by putting it on a separate partition, though this can have problems when it commes to the configuration files in /home

what problem are they? i have home in a seperate partition.

Well if you have e.g. slackware installed, with Y configuration for KDE these will be saved in ~/.kde, then you install e.g. FC4, and you settup KDE for it...the configuration will be saved in ~/.kde....thus overwriting the config for slackware's install of KDE. Though this isn't a major problem it can be one.

[GNOME_n00b]

you may want to share /home by putting it on a separate partition, though this can have problems when it commes to the configuration files in /home

what problem are they? i have home in a seperate partition.

Well if you have e.g. slackware installed, with Y configuration for KDE these will be saved in ~/.kde, then you install e.g. FC4, and you settup KDE for it...the configuration will be saved in ~/.kde....thus overwriting the config for slackware's install of KDE. Though this isn't a major problem it can be one.

that doesn't seem to have happened for me. the home directory thats in its own partition belongs to fedora. i also have suse 10 where the home directory is on the root partition. i have no problems in that area - the home directories are entirely seperate on mine, with no overlap.
i can see where you're coming from, though.

[Dachnaz]

Get a router and some cable and do some late-night ninja construction and get your internet. Screw your peeps or whoever won't let you get internet in your room. Stick up for yourself!

[onlinebacon]

Haha, I would but then my computer would be no more lucky it is a mini itx, be able to lug it downstairs now and then for updates

[jens]

you may want to share /home by putting it on a separate partition, though this can have problems when it commes to the configuration files in /home

what problem are they? i have home in a seperate partition.

Well if you have e.g. slackware installed, with Y configuration for KDE these will be saved in ~/.kde, then you install e.g. FC4, and you settup KDE for it...the configuration will be saved in ~/.kde....thus overwriting the config for slackware's install of KDE. Though this isn't a major problem it can be one.

that doesn't seem to have happened for me. the home directory thats in its own partition belongs to fedora. i also have suse 10 where the home directory is on the root partition. i have no problems in that area - the home directories are entirely seperate on mine, with no overlap.
i can see where you're coming from, though.

He means using the same /home for more distros.

PS: Smart seems nice indeed (making Yum only the 3th recommended tool after Smart and apt on RPMforge).

PS PS: Did you try the new "rpmforge-release" package already. It comes with Smart(being the recommended one), Apt(used to be the default), Yum(for those who still like it) including all configurations for them to start using all RPMforge goodies. (It also supports RHEL, CentOS, Aurora, Yellow Dog, ...)
http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/rpmforge-release/