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 1QRmI0-0007fA-4b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:20:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3000F1C02A; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (187.250.102.97.cfl.res.rr.com [97.102.250.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30D81C02A for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA72D7D801C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:19:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kutulu.org Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7W1i8yzr5znY for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:19:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.100.84] (173.221.47.98.nw.nuvox.net [173.221.47.98]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 89C117D801B for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:19:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DE64A52.2060300@kutulu.org> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:18:58 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files References: <20110601093118.GA7983@gaurahari.merseine.nu> <201106011147.35571.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201106011147.35571.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0c2e4ea43906a7ab4aa30bcc5baf0560 On 6/1/2011 5:47 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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. Best analogy ever.