From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QSY8d-0001yt-Ke for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:26:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D91B61C11F; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822371C11F for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so1870862fxm.40 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:24:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=vjnw37Fs8oO2kSylZKvk4sP5LvTjd6qfkASgHWj0/rQ=; b=FGGM6YKACUjn/TvqaxZoGpce4tvgCpVRXn+R34QUkCShxXI7NHodCR8MLL+1CMDOSQ OYHNQyT0Ak//Ck/H7tmLDg3SMPOShHNNCWl6nwEeRNgv74fyQLkCoztASoC/MFB1ZYHh tAkI5yqA4e5wZNzl4OHkEyciozt2uAR6oj4J4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=pZbOT+aAeIaNSCEVkzZuV+OHQJPd80J644Zz+mdQz1/3QHqt6tfrjD6h1w7awSR+DH BUyYczp24oOw4hi0yifwVZyIOn+G1uZyaBixLEmm3jS5GyxCmluUZE2LC12fT24cmfto kdOy4GGlr87H3I5uIcIFI8AZm/+he5bJIjI/c= Received: by 10.223.6.198 with SMTP id a6mr2401857faa.130.1307121895567; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:24:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC74876.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.199.72.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g8sm552238fai.44.2011.06.03.10.24.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:24:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:24:52 +0200 Message-ID: <1674386.qEDKh1zuGo@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.6 rc1 (Linux/2.6.39; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110603155225.3d748152@karnak.local> References: <20110603155225.3d748152@karnak.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 71286ab63d28eb4d3c35ca27d8730f0d On Friday 03 June 2011 15:52:25 David W Noon wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:00:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about > > Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: > >There is a simple rule in computing: > > > >NEVER remove user created data > > That is utter rubbish. Obsolete data can be dangerous, so once it's > genuinely obsolete it should be gone. > bullshit. The package manager has no way to know what user generated data is obsolete. All it knows that the file it installed was manipulated. > If that were true, why would it even be possible to delete data? because the user decides to delete the data. Not the machine. Not a package manager. > > >that also applies to config files. > > And obsolete configuration files are even more likely to be dangerous > than general data. really? Please show me an example of.. say an undeleted pure-ftpd configuration has a bad influence on your system. It is your job as administrator to clean up config files. Because only you, the administrator know what files can be deleted, which files should be saved (even just for documentation) and which files must not be touched. The package manager can not decide that.