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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:45:38
Message-Id: 201106031743.21150.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files by David W Noon
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 16:52 on Friday 03 June 2011, David W Noon did
2 opine thusly:
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6 > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:00:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about
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8 > Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
9 > >There is a simple rule in computing:
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11 > >NEVER remove user created data
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13 > That is utter rubbish. Obsolete data can be dangerous, so once it's
14 > genuinely obsolete it should be gone.
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16 You are painting yourself into a corner. Why don't you just admit the obvious,
17 that you are holding onto an untenable position?
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19 And please stop inferring other context than what is there.
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21 > If that were true, why would it even be possible to delete data?
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23 Look at what the statement applies to - an automated tool running cleanup
24 operations after itself. You have strawmanned it into applying universally,
25 which is decidedly NOT what Volker communicated.
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27 > >that also applies to config files.
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29 > And obsolete configuration files are even more likely to be dangerous
30 > than general data.
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32 Prove it.
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36 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com