Re: `du' control files
On Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 08:13:29PM -0500, Adam P. Harris wrote:
> I have to heartily agree with Manoj. It's a fundamental tenet in data
> quality analysis that data *use* should drive data collection, not vice
> versa. So until we really find how we need this file, how we use it, we
> shouldn't bother collecting the data.
Surely your argument applies equally to the md5sums file. Can you please
post arguing for these to be removed also?
There is more effort in removing the files and adding them again later
to every package than there is in just adding them to the packages
that don't have them.
Hamish
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