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Re: Dug myself into several deep holes



On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:24:41AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2004 11:06 am, Nano Nano wrote:
> 
> > I've got all my dotfiles saved, so after I wipe, I have to do *zero*
> > customization.  In other contexts I would make other decisions.
> 
> Not trying to be argumentative here, just an observation... 
> 
> Isn't it the configuration files where the mistakes are usually made?  If 
> you're restoring those, you're restoring the mistakes perhaps?

I can't answer this crisply.  Probably if I had 20 years of Unix I'd 
feel like you.  I almost never *need* to start over, it just gives me 
warm fuzzies and I don't worry about "bit rot" (read: ignorance).

For server racks and my XP partition, I follow your approach.  For my 
(solitary, single-user) Sid workstation, I like this for now.

Eh.



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