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On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:50:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:09 on Thursday 02 June 2011, Indi did opine |
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> thusly: |
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> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 04:30:02PM +0200, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> > > On 6/1/2011 5:47 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Wednesday 01 June 2011, Indi |
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> > > > did |
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> > > > |
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> > > > opine thusly: |
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> > > >> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:00:01AM +0200, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > >>> Personally, I'd be livid if portage were to remove my carefully |
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> > > >>> crafted work from time immemorial, without so much as a |
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> > > >>> by-your-leave. Anyone who wants to delete his own work is free to do |
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> > > >>> so, but the rest of us ought not to be required to suffer it. |
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> > > >> |
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> > > >> Doesn't matter to me, my longstanding rsync habit ensures there are |
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> > > >> always a couple of copies of my last known good configuration. |
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> > > >> Doesn't your carefully crafted work from time immemorial deserve |
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> > > >> rsync too? [cue rsync jingle] |
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> > > >> |
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> > > >> :) |
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> > > > |
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> > > > That's like saying that just because I have panel-beating skills and |
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> > > > lots of scrap metal in the back yard that it's perfectly OK for |
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> > > > marauding gangs of thugs to have at my car in the parking lots with |
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> > > > baseball bats. |
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> > > |
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> > > Best analogy ever. |
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> > |
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> > Hardly, though it does have a lot of drama which is what matters to |
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> > some. :) |
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> Actually it's quite relevant. |
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> Just because I have and can use rsync to undo damage done by dubious features |
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> of portage is not a valid reason for portage to have dubious features. Which |
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> explains why portage by and large does not have dubious features. |
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> So it's a good analogy, differing only in degree of devastation. |
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OK, if you say so. |
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I guess the subject doesn't have the emotional charge for me it does for |
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some. My point was pretty much "makes no difference to me, long as I |
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know what to expect and how it works". |
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