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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files
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On 06/03/2011 07:52 AM, David W Noon wrote:
> 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.

No, he doesn't mean in the general sense. He means it's never the
auspices of someone else to delete your user-created data.

Have we sufficiently beaten this dead horse?