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Hello Thomas Tuttle, |
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> > > > I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my |
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> > > > hard-disk. |
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> > Uninformed idiots who tell you total garbage like that ought to be |
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> > shot. No, they ought to be hung, drawn, quartered and their corpses |
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> > hung out on a stick to be picked clean by crows. |
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> I apologize for butting in, but this is actually possible if you are |
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> using a Flash memory medium, such as a CompactFlash card or a USB pen |
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> drive, for the filesystem containing Portage. It is true, as you said, |
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> that syncing often will cause no harm to a "normal" hard disk. |
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The statement specifically referred to a hard disk. Keeping portage on a |
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flash memory device would be insane. |
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> > Seriously, I spend half my days on support debunking just this kind |
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> > of twaddle. |
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> ...and scaring off users who passed it (probably just because they |
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> misunderstood or misinterpreted something) by replying like this. |
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If it scares them out of unquestioningly accepting and disseminating every |
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piece of uninformed rubbish they hear, is that such a bad thing? |
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Alan could have been a little more tactful, I suspect he was actually |
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biting his tongue and could have been more forceful I think he struck the |
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right balance. The original statement was ridiculous, not slightly in |
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error. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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