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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:06:19 +0200
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Apparently, though unproven, at 00:45 on Friday 03 June 2011, Volker Armin 
Hemmann did opine thusly:

> NEVER remove user created data

That one sentence sums up this entire thread beautifully.

Thank you for saying that.


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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com