On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:

# Trying to keep track of what files are part of the base system by using
# their position in the filesystem hierarchy is something like trying to
# keep track of which physical pennies are yours after you've taken them
# to the bank.  You simply cannot do it reliably -- you must use a more
# formal accounting system.

That's comparing apples and twenty-sided dice.  In our case, you CAN do
it reliably.

"More formal accounting system"?  Sounds too much like a registry to me.
No, thank you!

And I hardly qualify such statements coming from you anyway, to be frank.
You'd just as soon load everything under root anyway and leave it at that.

I don't want my system built either way you've described, and I don't think
I'm alone in my statements and conviction.

Someone (besides Greg) feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

				--*greywolf;
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