27 Feb
2022
27 Feb
'22
8 p.m.
On Sunday 27 February 2022 11:48:03 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2022 Sun, 27 Feb 11:24:29 -0800
William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
But wouldn't /etc/* (thus also everything inside it) get overwritten in a
fresh installation? If so, why does it persist? When I try to go back to
whatever installs by default, I still have this problem.
I do try to follow the rules, but I get the same results either way when it
comes to these browsers not starting, etc.
Bill
[...]
When I put things back to how they were before (because I have all the
saved packages, and lists of what I installed when), I am able to
reproduce what I did. When I reinstall, and try to put the system back to
how it was before, this same problem occurs. It doesn't matter that I
tried to put it back the same as before.
There might be a gotcha: look into /etc/alternatives - these do not get
rebuild to the same links that you might expect. GNOMEs just started to
place "xdg-open" as alternative to "open" in there (including the
manpage)
and it looks like the last package installed wins.
Nik