> On 2 Jul 2015, at 23:05, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marm...@invisiblethingslab.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 07:49:17PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> as far I observed until now, anything in a TemplateVM's home folder is
>> copied to a TemplateBasedVM home folder at creation time of the
>> TemplateBasedVM.
>>
>> From then, any modification in TemplateVM's home folder won't effect
>> existing TemplateBasedVM based on that TemplateVM. New TemplateBasedVM's
>> created based on that TemplateVM would get these changes, though.
>>
>> If my understanding is correct and this is currently undocumented, I
>> would like to add this to documentation. What would be an appropriate place?
>>
>> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/GettingStarted/#appvms-domains-and-templatevms
>> ?
>
> Yes, probably somewhere there.
>
> But, we're actually thinking about removing that feature, so new
> template-based VM would get clean home regardless when it was created.
> This would mean that one can no longer preconfigure user settings in the
> template to have them propagated to new VMs, but overall I think this
> would be more consistent. If one want to have something configured the
> same way on every VM (based on this particular template), it can be done
> in /etc.
>
> What do you think?

>
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> Best Regards,
> Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> Invisible Things Lab
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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