"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've never had a software installation touch my personal files. You > should save your work in /home/user, where software installation > doesn't touch (with the exception of the dot files, where your work > shouldn't be stored either). That's not entirely true. I had some remote filesystems mounted using SSHFS in a subdirectory to my home directory, and Yum complained about some access permission in those remote directories when doing an update. I had no idea why it would want to touch anything there. Regards Ingemar