Hello Thomas Tuttle, > > > > I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my > > > > hard-disk. > > > > Uninformed idiots who tell you total garbage like that ought to be > > shot. No, they ought to be hung, drawn, quartered and their corpses > > hung out on a stick to be picked clean by crows. > > I apologize for butting in, but this is actually possible if you are > using a Flash memory medium, such as a CompactFlash card or a USB pen > drive, for the filesystem containing Portage. It is true, as you said, > that syncing often will cause no harm to a "normal" hard disk.
The statement specifically referred to a hard disk. Keeping portage on a flash memory device would be insane. > > Seriously, I spend half my days on support debunking just this kind > > of twaddle. > > ...and scaring off users who passed it (probably just because they > misunderstood or misinterpreted something) by replying like this. If it scares them out of unquestioningly accepting and disseminating every piece of uninformed rubbish they hear, is that such a bad thing? Alan could have been a little more tactful, I suspect he was actually biting his tongue and could have been more forceful I think he struck the right balance. The original statement was ridiculous, not slightly in error. -- Neil Bothwick teG I sdrawkcaB eroM ehT oG I sdrawroF eroM ehT
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