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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:08:12
Message-Id: 4DE8F880.6030503@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files by David W Noon
1 On 06/03/2011 07:52 AM, David W Noon wrote:
2 > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:00:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about
3 > Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
4 >
5 >> There is a simple rule in computing:
6 >>
7 >> NEVER remove user created data
8 >
9 > That is utter rubbish. Obsolete data can be dangerous, so once it's
10 > genuinely obsolete it should be gone.
11
12 No, he doesn't mean in the general sense. He means it's never the
13 auspices of someone else to delete your user-created data.
14
15 Have we sufficiently beaten this dead horse?