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 1QSWZ8-00017t-0T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:45:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B344C1C07F; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 15:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E8A1C07F for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 15:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so5261285wwi.4 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:44:09 -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:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=ZXQPYIfoopGFMMILiBf9RDfZ4OnJcbqF6seqtZpsGNk=; b=MlzOll+mwSm3r/RdSX2fUz52S4xWG0ShERph+ECu1uyBEJtGpVNuzk171PtlJnepWT Msw5sNF/v9WdZ5vZt81VYlxnrCTLVgQuWrweYOFcuJQ/5GnSGQSjqabwJWp4GqqHQ0Lw DM/gdQtvj9aIVE1lzya+2Yb68ieL+bcjU5YRk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=a8NczynihCGJntZ84sS8mtKPbjeXMa2H8ko4ImmDPJ+4pASLrBNkc7ke51NMxYkZBZ F9a6Vky45/FPB88JSJ4CVWXKx9x1+pmdLvjY8Je+npOO3SqBY0ZnEW8e8lPyH9YD3DYA 7CrG19TjDgq7Xc3NiifhLfFKfnkt/UewcOh6o= Received: by 10.216.136.42 with SMTP id v42mr7143514wei.96.1307115849472; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-215.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h43sm912396wes.35.2011.06.03.08.44.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:44:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:43:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110603155225.3d748152@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: <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-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106031743.21150.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ee207cf82967d739fe3d58ffc4f3b204 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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com