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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