Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Wednesday 01 June 2011, Indi did 
opine thusly:

> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:00:01AM +0200, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Personally, I'd be livid if portage were to remove my carefully crafted
> > work from time immemorial, without so much as a by-your-leave. Anyone
> > who wants to delete his own work is free to do so, but the rest of us
> > ought not to be required to suffer it.
> 
> Doesn't matter to me, my longstanding rsync habit ensures there are
> always a couple of copies of my last known good configuration.
> Doesn't your carefully crafted work from time immemorial deserve
> rsync too? [cue rsync jingle]
> 
> :)

That's like saying that just because I have panel-beating skills and lots of 
scrap metal in the back yard that it's perfectly OK for marauding gangs of 
thugs to have at my car in the parking lots with baseball bats.


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