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 1QRi3a-0002NC-HF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:49:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CD951C0EB; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:48:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43E21C0EB for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so2148069ewy.40 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:48:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=h1A/gFZsUdTWcoezrcfF7ohb4hGlVwxo7UvnMiLpggI=; b=lmCm2iVccoJo4FeXyZl0FEWqG8hpnEiW9TqA1fkMeq5bxIaoMO/eA3LiqULwhSoKGO LxvaUk0vVhfHYjSxZ++yi2O5T5/uBbOskoFVd74K3hmm/nxpxRdq6lV0XaiFTq5vBkOw 20AdvpR4oHpCW7EupJVZs9I5S/a4HIL6m0hJI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=aiS3iDihjwNnXngdnTftpHjDwwGzQBxvazyI6Y8vDugiCj5w/2c+LhOSoHK3dcgSv+ jjcwGkfqFmBlcOdbO8OKVrj4FvZW5/5+datV4ASHjuA9kZHzcmaLlNt8p2SS5WuZr2PY qFPzFJw1lcbDrWbRoLVXTafcwEDDHrDhk59xs= Received: by 10.14.2.98 with SMTP id 74mr2756875eee.194.1306921696819; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-91-253.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.91.253]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a45sm590521eec.23.2011.06.01.02.48.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:48:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:47:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Indi References: <20110601093118.GA7983@gaurahari.merseine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20110601093118.GA7983@gaurahari.merseine.nu> 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-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106011147.35571.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0b788525cd964c0bd425f69d230bac66 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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com