On Tuesday, September 4, "D. J. Bernstein" wrote:
>
> I'm not saying what OpenBSD must do. I'm asking the /package opponents
> to rationally justify their opposition...

This not a /package discussion list. You've been told that a number of
times, yet you seem to forget.

> My web pages at http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html explain in detail how
> /package eliminates several existing problems for users and programmers.

Great, take it to the /package list.

> There doesn't seem to be any dispute that these problems have occurred,
> that they are continuing to occur, and that /package eliminates them.

Great, on the /package list.

> The purpose is not the same. /package is a global namespace; /usr/local
> isn't. /package allows system packages; /usr/local doesn't. Anyway, you
> didn't answer the question: what is the _harm_?

On the /package list? Nothing.

> > We got clean and structured tree,
>
> Loaded words, again not backed up by any engineering sense.

Oh? And you happen to have an engineering degree? Oh sorry, I suppose
to have engineering sense, you don't really need a degree in such. Just
hope that bridge on the way home ain't built that way...

--Toby.

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