Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

David Terrell writes:
> Except, dan, the entire universe has standardized on /usr/local for 
> addons and /usr for base components except you.

Wrong. Ever heard of Linux? Locally compiled add-on packages go into
/usr/local, but precompiled add-on packages go into /usr, except, of
course, when they go into /opt.

All of these non-constant splits cause serious problems for users. See
http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/studies.html for several examples.

> Let's face it, you really don't want people who can't figure out how
> to compile qmail to use it anyway, do you?

Precompiled packages reduce installation latency.

---Dan