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On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:20:02 +0200, Bill Longman wrote about Re: |
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[gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: |
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>On 06/03/2011 07:52 AM, David W Noon wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:00:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about |
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>> Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: |
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>>> There is a simple rule in computing: |
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>>> NEVER remove user created data |
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>> That is utter rubbish. Obsolete data can be dangerous, so once it's |
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>> genuinely obsolete it should be gone. |
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>No, he doesn't mean in the general sense. He means it's never the |
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>auspices of someone else to delete your user-created data. |
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Well, it's the sysadmin who installs the packages; it's the sysadmin |
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who modifies the configuration files; it's the sysadmin who deletes the |
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packages. There is no "someone else", at least on my systems. |
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>Have we sufficiently beaten this dead horse? |
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It stopped breathing a day or two back, so I guess so. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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