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From: D. J. Bernstein (djbcr.yp.to)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 16:40:44 CDT

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    [A temporarily anonymous idiot is flooding me with list subscriptions in
    response to my messages here.]

    Henning Brauer writes:
    > But if every author releases his software using
    > /myfavoritelocationoutsideusrlocal we get a big chaos.

    The same comment applies to every new filename on the system. We already
    have chaos in /usr/lib. We have /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local/Acrobat3 and
    /usr/local/share/emacs. We have the horrifying cross-platform chaos
    described in http://cr.yp.to/compatibility.html and in every book on
    UNIX system administration.

    /package, to the extent that new package authors choose to use it, will
    help clean up the mess.

    ---Dan