On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:16:52PM -0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> 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.
... and we're not Linux.
> All of these non-constant splits cause serious problems for users. See
> http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/studies.html for several examples.
Your lousy rhethoric shows... why do you want to apply Linux's defects
to us ? And why do you always have to put a bloody url to your own
page in everything you send ? Are you THAT infatuated with your own
writing ?
> > 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.
Ah, we agree on that. Make it possible for us to provide precompiled
packages that don't look like an Alien Encounter on an OpenBSD system.
After all, that's for the sake of the Users, isn't it ?
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