Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

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

Apparently, though unproven, at 16:52 on Friday 03 June 2011, David W Noon did 
opine thusly:



> 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.

You are painting yourself into a corner. Why don't you just admit the obvious, 
that you are holding onto an untenable position?

And please stop inferring other context than what is there.

> If that were true, why would it even be possible to delete data?

Look at what the statement applies to - an automated tool running cleanup 
operations after itself. You have strawmanned it into applying universally, 
which is decidedly NOT what Volker communicated.

> >that also applies to config files.
> 
> And obsolete configuration files are even more likely to be dangerous
> than general data.

Prove it.


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