On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:00:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:

>There is a simple rule in computing:
>
>NEVER remove user created data

That is utter rubbish.  Obsolete data can be dangerous, so once it's
genuinely obsolete it should be gone.

If that were true, why would it even be possible to delete data?

>that also applies to config files.

And obsolete configuration files are even more likely to be dangerous
than general data.
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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