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?