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| Subject: | Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail? |
| From: | "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> |
| Date: | 1 Sep 2001 05:41:16 -0000 |
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| Sender: | owner-ports@openbsd.org |
Marc Espie writes: > why do you want to apply Linux's defects to us? The problems described in http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/studies.html are not Linux-specific. OpenBSD created exactly the same types of problems when it moved lynx.cfg from /usr/local to /etc, for example. /package eliminates these problems for users and programmers. Files are accessed through constant names. Third-party packages can transparently move into (or out of) the system. Am I saying that you should run around and move everything to /package? Of course not. It's up to _package authors_, not distributors, to make the switch for new packages. Cross-platform compatibility is essential. ---Dan |
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