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Re: Susu and Rum patch for coreutils-5.2.1
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Alpt |
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Re: Susu and Rum patch for coreutils-5.2.1 |
Date: |
Fri, 3 Jun 2005 19:21:43 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
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hahaSRY |
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 09:48:50AM -0600, <Bob Proulx>:
~> Alpt wrote:
~> > Ok, let's rephrase it: if you crashed with your car and you're still
~> > alive then, even if you are experienced, you can still crash with
~> > it. no? eheh ^_.
~>
~> Every so often I make a mistake. Everyone does. This is similar to
~> making a mistake with a wood chisel in the wookshop or a knife in the
~> kitchen. In those cases you can injure yourself. Woodworking tools
~> and kitchen knives are obviously terribly dangerous things and we must
~> all work to abolish their use! We must make them safe so that users
~> cannot hurt themselves. Right? But would anyone trade in those tools
~> for "safe" versions of them?[1]
Well, if the "safe" version is intelligent and turns the blade in rubber when
it understands it will cut a finger, I think yes. (There's also the case when
the user wants to cut his finger, then he uses the double force mode :)
~> > So why don't let the user keep a list of important directories or
~> > files ? It's just an handy option, the user can decide to use it or
~> > not, and surely it doesn't protect him totally because there are so
~> > many ways to smash the own machine, but at least it's better than
~> > nothing :)
~>
~> Usually the user does not know the list of important directories until
~> after they have removed one.
hahaha, that's true, but maybe the ones listed here can be considered
"important":
http://freaknet.org/alpt/src/utils/rum/files/rm.conf
Best Regards
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