On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:20:02 +0200, Bill Longman wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
>On 06/03/2011 07:52 AM, David W Noon wrote: >> 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. > >No, he doesn't mean in the general sense. He means it's never the >auspices of someone else to delete your user-created data. Well, it's the sysadmin who installs the packages; it's the sysadmin who modifies the configuration files; it's the sysadmin who deletes the packages. There is no "someone else", at least on my systems. >Have we sufficiently beaten this dead horse? It stopped breathing a day or two back, so I guess so. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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