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From: Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:20:07
Message-Id: 20110602130929.GB27716@gaurahari.merseine.nu
1 On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 04:30:02PM +0200, Mike Edenfield wrote:
2 > On 6/1/2011 5:47 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Wednesday 01 June 2011, Indi did
4 > > opine thusly:
5 > >
6 > >> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:00:01AM +0200, Peter Humphrey wrote:
7 > >>> Personally, I'd be livid if portage were to remove my carefully crafted
8 > >>> work from time immemorial, without so much as a by-your-leave. Anyone
9 > >>> who wants to delete his own work is free to do so, but the rest of us
10 > >>> ought not to be required to suffer it.
11 > >>
12 > >> Doesn't matter to me, my longstanding rsync habit ensures there are
13 > >> always a couple of copies of my last known good configuration.
14 > >> Doesn't your carefully crafted work from time immemorial deserve
15 > >> rsync too? [cue rsync jingle]
16 > >>
17 > >> :)
18 > >
19 > > That's like saying that just because I have panel-beating skills and lots of
20 > > scrap metal in the back yard that it's perfectly OK for marauding gangs of
21 > > thugs to have at my car in the parking lots with baseball bats.
22 >
23 > Best analogy ever.
24
25 Hardly, though it does have a lot of drama which is what matters to
26 some. :)
27
28 --
29 caveat utilitor
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>